Teen who ran over, killed construction worker gets bail
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The 17-year-old teenager who ran over and killed a construction worker with a car in Dhaka’s Baridhara has been granted bail.
Dhaka Children’s Court-8 Judge Md Abdul Moktadir passed the order upon a written undertaking of Tk 2,000 on Thursday.
Lawyer Khorshed Mia Alam filed an application seeking bail. During the hearing, he said, “The teenager has fallen seriously ill at the juvenile development center.”
State prosecution lawyer Mohammad Sharif Uddin Mamun opposed the bail. After hearing both sides, the court granted bail.
Earlier on 24 September, the teenager was produced in court. Investigating officer and Gulshan Police Station SI Arefin Islam applied to detain him at a juvenile development center. Following the application that day, he was sent to the Tongi Juvenile Development Center in Gazipur.
The accident occurred around 5 pm on 22 September on the sidewalk of road number 1 in Dhaka’s Baridhara Diplomatic Zone. While sitting and resting on the sidewalk, a private car lost control and ran over construction worker Mehedi Hasan. Later, when he was taken to Kurmitola General Hospital, the doctor declared him dead.
Following the accident, people present at the scene caught the teenager in the driver’s seat of the car and handed him over to the police.
However, after interrogation, he was released into the custody of his uncle that same night. In connection with the death of Mehedi, his brother Moktadir Islam filed a case at Gulshan Police Station on 23 September.
