Cops arrest three but not driver

Police filed case against 400 villagers and arrested three persons, including two students, yesterday on charges of torching vehicles and clash with the law enforcers after a road accident in the district that killed two SSC examinees on Monday.
The arrestees are rickshaw-puller Abdul Malek and college students Amin Akhtar Munnah, and Mohammad Sohel.
Two SSC examinees--Al-Amin, 14, and Manjur Rahman, 15, of of Kashidanga High School died on Monday afternoon when they were sandwiched between a bus and a truck at Kashidanga on the outskirts of Rajshahi city.
The victim Al Amin's uncle Samir Uddin also filed a case against the driver of the killer bus accusing him to drive recklessly. But police could not arrest him till filing of this report at 8:30pm.
Investigation officer of the case filed in connection with the road accident said that they would start proceedings for identifying the bus owner first and then the driver.
An arrest panic was prevailing in Chitolkul and Adarepara villages as police led by Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Rajpara Police Station Mokarram Hossain raided the villages, one km off Kashidanga (the spot of the accident) and arrested the three persons.
Korban Ali Mukul, father of another victim Manjur Rahman, claimed that police were chasing many villagers who were actually not present during the violence.
Zahangir Alam, councilor of the ward No. 2 of Haragram union said people began to flee their homes fearing arrest.
Talking to The Daily Star, the OC of Rajpara police said they are looking into the two cases putting them on the same priority.