Battery-run rickshaws return to Ctg city roads

After a nearly one-and-a half months break, banned battery-run rickshaws started plying across Chittagong city again.

Hundreds of these rickshaws were seen on almost all the roads of the city, including in GEC, Golpahar, New Market, Agrabad, EPZ, Katghar, Alanker and Bahadderhat areas yesterday.   

Abdul Kader Majumder, president of Chhattagram Battery Chalito Rickshaw Chalok Malik Forum, a platform of 15,000 rickshaws, said they secured an order from the Supreme Court that extended a High Court stay order on the ban till June 18.

The HC order expired on March 15 this year. The SC extended the stay order on April 22.

Masud Ul Alam, deputy commissioner of Traffic Division (North) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, said they received a copy of the order and would take action accordingly after scrutinising it.