Staff Reporter :
The government is working to enact a new law to ensure speedy trial of death in road accidents, Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Wednesday.
The Law Ministry has completed vetting the proposed Road Transport Authority Act 2018, which will have the provision of “adequate punishment” for committing crime like death on roads.
“The draft might be placed in the next cabinet meeting. If the cabinet approves, it will be placed in the Parliament,” Anisul Huq told The New Nation while talking with the reporter at his secretariat office.
Declining to comment in details over the issue, the minister said, it will have a provision of speedy trial for offences like deaths in road crashes.
According to the Law Minister, the proposed law will address fitness, driving licenses, insurance and drivers’ training problems.
He said, all the victims will get justice after the law will be formulated.
The Law Minister has also condoled the death of the two college students who were killed on Airport Road last Sunday.
“I have lost my wife in a road accident. Therefore, I realise the feelings of the families whose members are killed in an accident,” he said, adding that the government will take every necessary step in order to prevent road accidents.
