Court accepts charges against four accused
A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges brought against four accused in a case filed over the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury in a road accident on March 19.
The charge-sheeted accused are Suprobhat Paribahan owner Nani Gopal Sarker, and three staffers of the bus that ran him over -- driver Sirajul Islam, conductor Yasin Arafat and helper Md Ibrahim.
They were charged for the death of Abrar and for murder attempt on college student Synthia Islam Mukta.
After scrutinising case dockets and other documents, Metropolitan Magistrate Debdas Chandra Adhikary yesterday accepted the charges.
The court also sent the case to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate for the next course of action.
On April 25, Investigation Officer Kazi Shariful Islam, an inspector of police’s Detective Branch (DB), pressed charges against the four accused, all of whom are currently in jail.
All of the accused have given confessional statements before magistrates.
DB pressed charges against Yasin and Gopal in the Abrar murder charge, while all four were charged for the attempted murder of Synthia.
On March 19, a bus of Suprobhat Paribahan ran over and killed Abrar near Dhaka’s Bashundhara Residential Area, after it had hit Synthia in Shahjadpur.
Following the incident, Abrar’s father Brig Gen (retd) Arif Ahmed Chowdhury filed a murder case with Gulshan Police Station.
As per the confessional statements of the accused, passengers and pedestrians caught bus driver Sirajul and handed him over to police in Shahjadpur in the morning of March 19, after the vehicle had hit college girl Synthia.
After the accident, the bus was parked by a road there. Conductor Yasin informed Gopal of the incident over phone and said agitated locals might torch the bus. Gopal then asked him to drive the vehicle to a safer place.
Yasin, who had no driving licence, took the wheels and ran over and killed 20-year-old Abrar near Bashundhara Residential Area.
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