HC bans heavy vehicles on Rampura link road

Staff Correspondent: The High Court (HC) on Monday issued a ban for three months on heavy vehicles in road from the capital’s Rampura bridge to Amulia en route Banasree with an aim to protect the road from damage and traffic congestion.

The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why their inability and incompetency to control traffic congestion through restraint and prohibition of heavy vehicle movement on the road should not be declared illegal.

The HC bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice AKM Jahirul Haque came up with the order and rule following a writ petition.

Barrister Golam Sarowar Payel stood for the petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Aurobindo Kumar Roy represented the state during the hearing on the case.

Secretary to the ministry of Road, Transport and Bridges, home secretary, inspector general of police, Bangladesh Road Transport Association’s chairman, chief engineer and engineers of Roads and Highways Department, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner and its additional commissioners, officer-in-charge of Rampura and Khilgaon police stations, sub-division engineers of roads and highways department have been made respondents to the rule.

They will have to reply to the rule within four weeks, the court said.

Earlier, Qamrul Hasan Khan Pathan, a resident of Banasree in Rampura, filed the writ petition yesterday seeking necessary order from the HC.

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