Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil issued an interim order along with a rule on Tuesday after the primary hearing of a writ petition filed in public interest. In the meantime, the Home Secretary, Communications Secretary and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority Chairman have been given an interim order to give Tk 100,000 each to the families of the four victims within 15 days. A class eight student on Jan 22 and a college student on Jan 16 this year have died in separate road accidents in Chattogram. The home secretary, road transport and bridges secretary, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority, inspector general of police, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, Chattogram Metropolitan Police commissioner and 14 defendants have been asked to respond to the rule within four weeks. The petitioner's lawyer Abdul Halim has said the writ petition will be moved at the High Court for the next orders on Apr 15.

Source: bd News24 February 05, 2019 12:33 UTC