A Moulvibazar court on Wednesday placed a bus driver and his helper on a 5-day remand in a case filed over the death of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) student Wasim in a road crash in Moulvibazar.
Moulvibazar district chief judicial magistrate Kazi Bahauddin passed the order after police produced bus driver Jewel Ahmed, 30, his assistant Masuk Mia, 31 of ‘Udar Paribahan’, before the court seeking a 10-day remand, said Sohel Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Moulvibazar
Model Police Station. Twenty-two-year old Md Wasim Abbas, a final-year Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering student, was crushed to death by a bus after its helper reportedly pushed him off the vehicle at Sherpur in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila on Saturday. Later, SAU Proctor Prof Dr Mrittunjoy Kundu filed the case with Moulvibazar Model Police Station on Monday accusing driver Jewel, his assistant Masuk Mia and supervisor Sheful Mia. Sheful is on the run.
The two arrested accused confessed about to their guilt in the primary interrogation.
Meanwhile, the students of the university on Wednesday staged demonstrations on the campus and blocked Tilagarh road near the campus on the third day of their 3-day ultimatum to fulfill their 5-point demand.
