Death of Akifa: Bus driver put on 2-day remand

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UNB, Kushtia :
A court here on Wednesday placed ‘Ganj-e-raj Paribahan’ bus driver Mahit Mia on a two-day remand in a case filed over the death of a baby girl in a road accident in the district town on August 28.
Senior Judicial Magistrate MM Morshed passed the order when Sub-Inspector Sumon Quaderi of Kushtia Model Police Station, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced him before the court with a five-day remand prayer.
On September 12, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Mahit Mia alias Khokon from Bangeswari area in Faridpur sadar upazila after a court here cancelled his bail order in the case.
Senior Judicial Magistrate MM Morshed issued arrest warrants against the bus owner and its driver following a petition filed by the IO on September 11. Earlier on September 9, the magistrate granted bail to bus owner Joynal Abedin and the driver in the case. A Rab team arrested the bus owner from his house in Faridpur district town on September 9. Besides, Khokon surrendered before the court on September 10. Akifa, a one-year-old daughter of Haruur Rashid, who sustained injuries after she fell from her mother Rina Akhter’s lap when a bus of ‘Ganj-e-raj Paribahan’ hit the mother in Kushtia district town on August 28, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in the capital on August 30.
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