Verdict today on killing of Rajib, Dia in road crash

A Dhaka court is set to deliver its verdict today in the case filed over a road accident that killed two college students in the capital sparking an unprecedented road safety movement in the country. 

Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court is scheduled to deliver the verdict at 3:00pm, said court sources.  

On November 14, the court had set the date of delivering the verdict on completion of placing arguments from the prosecution and defence.  

Drivers, helpers and owners of two Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan buses were made accused in the case.  

The accused are Shahadat Hossain and Jahangir Alam, owners of the buses; Masum Billah and Zobair Hossain Sumon, drivers of the buses; and Enayet Hossain and Kazi Asad, helpers of the buses.  

The High Court stayed the trial proceedings against Shahdat, now on bail, on November 7 last year. Asad was on the run.

On September 6 last year, Inspector Kazi Shariful Islam of Detective Branch of police submitted charge-sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka against the accused.  

The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka framed charges against them on October 25 and the trial began on November 1.  

Of 41 witnesses, 37 gave their testimonies before Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court in the case.  

On July 29, two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College -- Abdul Karim Rajib, 18, and Dia Khanam Mim, 17 -- were run over and killed while nine other were injured during a mad race between two buses of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan.  

Victim Dia’s father Jahangir Alam Fakir filed a case with Cantonment Police Station in connection with the killing on the same day.