Discipline on road at any cost: DMP chief

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia today vowed to bring discipline in the city’s unruly transport sector.

“At any cost, we will bring discipline in the transport sector,” he told agitating students at the gates of Bashundhara Residential this morning.

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His comments come after yet another student dying because of indiscipline in the transport sector and the all-out road safety protests in August last year.

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“We will not allow transports to ply without fitness certificates,” he said.

“There is still a long way to go to ensure road safety. But there has been many improvements. No motorcyclists now ride without helmets,” he said.

He also said, the bus service of Suprabhat Paribahan has been kept off for now and that the route permit of the guilty bus has been cancelled.

Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, a road safety campaigner and student of Bangladesh University of Professionals, was run over by a bus at Bashundhara gate yesterday.

Police and fellow students said Abrar was on the zebra crossing when a bus, racing with another, crushed him under its wheels around 7:30am.

The driver of the bus, who has been arrested, has been made the prime accused in a lawsuit filed over the death, while his helper, the owner and contracting firm made accused also.