Pay Tk 10 lakh to Rajib’s brothers in 30 days: SC to Sajan Paribahan

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the owner of Sajan Paribahan to give Tk 10 lakh in a month to the brothers of Rajib Hossain, a college student who died last year after his right arm got stuck between two buses and got severed.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain gave the order after hearing a petition filed by Sajan Paribahan, challenging a High Court verdict.

The HC on June 20 asked two bus companies -- Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation and Sajan Paribahan -- to pay in two months Tk 25 lakh each to Rajib’s brothers Mehedi Hasan Bappi, 16, and Abdulla Hridoy, 15

Rajib, a third-year student of Government Titumir College, died on April 17 after he lost his arm while two buses of the aforesaid companies were trying to overtake each other in the capital’s Bangla Motor.