Police will press charges against six people, including the owner of the bus that ploughed into a group of college students in Dhaka last month killing two persons.
“The chargesheet will be submitted to the court this week against six people,” Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) Abdul Baten told Bangla Tribune on Monday (Sept 3).
They are owners of two Jabale Noor-operated buses—Shahadat Hossain and Jahangir Alam, the drivers Masum Billah and Zobaer Sumon, and their assistants Enayet Hossain and Kazi Asad.
Elaborating the charges, investigators said the drivers did not have the licence to drive heavy vehicles.
The owners will be charged for allowing drivers to work without a proper licence.
The two assistants will face charge for abetting reckless driving.
On Jul 29, Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College students Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib were killed as a Jabale Noor bus ploughed into a group of students while they were waiting for transport at a stoppage on the city’s Airport Road.
The tragedy occurred as the bus tried to overtake another bus of the same transport operator.
Following the deaths, Mim’s father filed a case with the Cantonment police station in Dhaka, which was later transferred to the DMP’s Detective Branch.