Staff Reporter :
During the hearing on a Suo Moto rule, the HC on Wednesday said that without valid fitness documents no vehicles would be allowed to ply on the roads across the country.The High Court Bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam passed the opinion.
The HC Bench also asked the BRTA authority to inform it how many unfit vehicles were still operating on the roads without valid documents and fitness certificates.
It ordered the BRTA and Inspector General of Police (IGP) to inform the HC about their action against the unfit vehicles by February 16. It also fixed February 16 for passing an order on this issue.
Meanwhile, in response of the court’s earlier order, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and Inspector General of Police submitted two compliance reports in the court.
The IGP’s report said that police department had taken all necessary actions as per court’s direction so far and the drive was also going on in complying with a High Court order.
The report said that police headquarters issued notices asking the owners of filling stations across the country not to sell oil and gas to unfit vehicles without examining their fitness certificates, according to the IGP’s report.
The Court on 23 October 2019 directed the concerned bodies not to any sell kind of fuel from the CNG stations or the petrol pumps to the vehicles whose fitness have not been renewed.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other respondents have been directed to take appropriate actions so that the non-fit cars cannot buy fuel.
More than 3.9 lakh vehicles are still running without valid fitness documents, according to the BRTA report.
On June 23, 2019, the same High Court bench asked Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to submit a detailed report before it on registered but unfit vehicles, their registration numbers and names of vehicle owners.
Complying with the High Court order of June 23, BRTA on July 24 submitted a report in the court which said a total of 4,79,320 vehicles without valid fitness certificates were running on the roads across the country.
The court on March 27 issued a Suo Moto (voluntarily) rule upon the matter considering a published news in this regard.
Md Rafiul Islam appeared in the court on behalf of BRTA while Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik stood for the state.
