Victim’s father files writ petition seeking Tk 10cr compensation
Father of Golam Kibria, a traffic police sergeant who was killed in a road accident in Barishal earlier this month, yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directives on the authorities concerned to give his family Tk 10 crore as compensation.
Md Younus Ali Sardar, father of Kibria, in the petition also prayed to the HC to pass an order on the government to ensure safety and security of citizens by controlling reckless driving through strict compliance of traffic rules or to introduce new laws in this regard.
He also requested the High Court to ask the government to ensure modern technology for helping traffic sergeants and traffic police perform their duties, and to take necessary action against four respondents for allegedly killing sergeant Kibria by way of driving a covered van violating all kinds of traffic rules.
The HC bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam yesterday set July 28 to hear on the petition, Advocate Faizullah Fayez -- lawyer for the petitioner -- told The Daily Star.
He said Kibria was killed after a covered van of Jamuna Group ran him over when he was discharging duties on Barishal-Patuakhali highway near Barishal University in on July 15.
Kibria signalled the speeding covered van to stop, but it tried to flee the scene by ignoring the signal. He chased the covered van on his motorbike to stop it.
The covered van hit him and fled the scene, the lawyer said.
The petition prayed to the HC to make the following people respondents to its order: secretaries to the ministries of home and road transport and communications; inspector general of police; Barishal Metropolitan Police commissioner and its additional police commissioner (traffic); Bangladesh Road Transport Authority; Md Nurul Islam Babul, chairman of Jamuna Group; its Managing Director Shameem Islam; managing director of Jamuna Electronics and Automobiles Ltd; and Abdul Jalil Mia, driver of the covered van that ran over the traffic sergeant.
The petitioner also urged the HC to order Nurul Islam Babul, Shameem Islam, Jamuna Electronics and Auto Mobiles Ltd’s managing director and Abdul Jalil Mia to pay Tk 10 crore in compensation to Kibria’s family, Advocate Fayez added.
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