Star report prompts case against brutality
A reader of The Daily Star yesterday filed a case against a human hauler driver and its conductor for getting two passengers beaten up in the hands of their cohorts in the capital's Shewrapara on July 30.
Bithika Mazumdar, a housewife, filed the case with Mirpur Police Station on the basis of a news item, “Crime goes unchecked”, published in The Daily Star on July 31.
The case statement said the passengers quarrelled with the driver, Md Selim, and the unidentified conductor of the vehicle (Dhaka Metro 11-1888) plying on the Gulshan-Pallabi via Mohakhali route. The issue was over calling for passengers at Mohakhali though the vehicle was supposed to ply non-stop.
At one stage Selim called the cohorts over phone and stopped the vehicle at Shewrapara bus terminal. The cohorts then beat the duo with steel pipes, bricks and sticks. The goons also robbed them of their cellphones, said the statement.
Officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, Wazed Ali, told The Daily Star that police were trying to arrest the accused.
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