Police have been granted custody of the driver of the bus, which ran over and killed a private university student near the Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka.
Sirajul Islam was produced in court on Wednesday (Mar 20) following his arrest by the Gulshan police immediately after the accident the previous day.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court remanded him for seven days after police sought 10 days, court police’s General Registration Officer Rakibul Islam told Bangla Tribune.
BUP student Abrar Ahmed Chowhdury was killed on the morning of Tuesday.
BUP students took to the streets and shouted demands for punishment to the bus driver. The driver was subsequently arrested and the vehicle seized by the police.
Students from different institutions in the area also joined the protests demanding safer roads.
His family started a case later the same day with the Gulshan police.
On Wednesday morning, protesters once again took to the streets near Jamuna Future Park in Dhaka with students in other parts of the capital following suit. Traffic in the city ground to a halt amid protests in Shahbagh, Dhanmondi, Science Laboratory crossing and Old Dhaka.
Abrar, the elder of the two brothers, lived with his family in Block D of Bashundhara Residential Area. His father, Arif Ahmed Chowdhury, retired as a brigadier general of the Bangladesh Army.
Abrar enrolled into BUP in 2018 after completing the A Level. He was laid to rest in the capital's Banani Graveyard on Tuesday evening.