A Dhaka court placed the driver of a bus and his associate on two-day remand in connection with the death of a private university student killed in a road accident in the city, which sparked protest in Dhaka street.
Nadia Akter, 20, a first semester student at the pharmacy department of Northern University Bangladesh, died after a Victor Paribahan bus hit a motorcycle on Sunday (January 22), where she was a pillion rider on her friend’s motorbike.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur passed the order of remand after Bhatara Police Station Sub-inspector Mohammad Al Imran Rajon – the investigating officer of the case filed in the same police station – produced the driver Md Liton, 34, and his assistant Abul Khayer, 22, before court with seven-day remand prayer.
Although Police seized the fatal bus immediately after the incident, the duo arrested from Badda area on Monday, said the Deputy Commissioner of Gulshan Division under Dhaka Metropolitan Police Md Abdul Ahad.
Students of Northern University Bangladesh took to the streets for one and a half hour at the streets in Kawla area on the capital's Airport road for the consecutive day on Monday to press home four-point demands, which led severe traffic gridlock.
The demands were: arrest of the alleged driver and helper, cancellation of route permit of the bus company, compensation to the victim's family, and stoppage of all buses at Kawla bus stand area.
