Staff Reporter :
Police on Monday arrested the bus driver who ‘deliberately’ ran a young man over after he was pushed off the vehicle by its helper at Bagher Bazar in Sadar upazila here.
Rokonuddin was arrested from Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh in the afternoon, said Superintendent of Police (SP) of Gazipur Shamsunnahar.
Officer-in-charge of Joydebpur Police Station Md Asaduzzaman said the victim’s younger brother filed a murder case accusing four people-bus driver, helper, contractor and supervisor.
On Sunday, victim Salauddin Ahmed, 35, a driver at a local garment factory in Bagher Bazar, and his wife were returning to Gazipur from Mymensingh by an ‘Alam Asia Paribahan’ bus after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr.
Victim’s wife said Salauddin had a brawl with the bus helper over fare while the helper beat him inside the vehicle and threatened to throw him out of the running bus.
When the bus reached Bagher Bazar, the helper pushed Salauddin off the bus which was still running with her inside. As his wife was in the moving bus, the youth ran before the bus and asked the driver to stop it. However, the driver drove the bus over Salauddin, leaving him dead on the spot.
The bus also drove away with his wife and dropped her 5 kms away.
