TRAFFIC VIOLATION : DMP warned over filing flawed cases

The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate recently warned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner over the chronic practice of filing flawed traffic violation cases that allow the offenders to escape punishments.
The collapse of 95,565 traffic violation cases due to the flaws in filing them by the police prompted the warning.
CMM Sheikh Hafizur Rahman issued the written warning to the DMP commissioner on August 31after metropolitan courts could not take the charges against the accused in 95, 565 traffic violation cases into cognizance due to various flaws.
The common flaws included not even recording the complaints, the addresses of the accused and the places and time of occurrence of the offences in the cases pending for long, said the CMM’s letter of warning.
The court detected that the police recorded only the registration numbers of the vehicles in their case books but omitted the names of the accused drivers and the witnesses.
The CMM directed the police officers to reinvestigate the cases they had forwarded to the courts for trial.
Until August 2015, out of 3.03 lakh cases received by the CMM’s Court for trial,
1.54 lakh related to traffic violations, said the letter.
The CMM sent a copy of the letter to DMP deputy commissioner for prosecution whose office is at the CMM Court premises.
DMP joint commissioner for the south traffic zone Banaj Kumar said that the flaws in traffic violation cases detected by the court was a matter of deep concern.
He, however, told New Age that the flaws occur due to various limitations under which the police usually file the traffic violation cases.
He said that DMP was seeking advice from its deputy commissioners for traffic management on how to avoid the chronic flaws.
According to the government’s statistics eight people die in road accidents in the country every day.
But according to the World Bank estimates 30 people die every day in Bangladesh in road accidents.
While the estimates of the World Health Organization put the daily death toll due to road crashes at 48.
Most of the accidents occur due to the negligence of the drivers, many of whom are underage or are found driving without licence.

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