Ex-MP’s nephew not prosecuted for injuring 4 people

The police were yet to prosecute an underage reckless driver, also a former Awami League lawmaker’s nephew, for injuring four people on October 12, when his sports utility vehicle crashed into two rickshaws and an electric pole at Gulshan in the city.
Gulshan police station officer-in-charge Sirajul Islam said that they did not prosecute the boy, Fareez Rahman, nephew of former lawmaker HBM Iqbal, for injuring the four, as the victims submitted written statements to the police saying that they would not file any case.
He, however, said that they detained the car, handed Fareez over to his family and prosecuted the boy in a court under the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983 for reckless driving and driving a vehicle being disqualified under for obtaining a driving licence.
Section 160 of the ordinance empowers the police to arrest any person for reckless driving.
Abdul Hakim, a rickshaw-puller injured in the incident, said that he was asked by the family of Fareez in presence of police not to file any case, rather to take Tk 50,000 for his treatment.
‘I do not dare to fight with the so powerful family…What I can do if they ask me not to file any case,’ he said.
Three of the four injured, have already left United Hospital after treatment. New Age was not allowed to talk to the rest injured, Rafiqul Islam, by the United Hospital authority.
The car, Fareez was driving recklessly, crashed into two rickshaws and finally a pole on Road 74 at Gulshan on October 12 injuring the two rickshaw-pullers, a passenger of one of the rickshaws and a pedestrian.
Witnesses said that Fareez was filming himself by his mobile phone and sending them to his friends through photo-messaging service while driving.
Some photos went viral on Facebook after the incident showing that police were taking away Fareez in a police motorcycle after talking to someone over mobile from the spot.
Gulshan police sub-inspector Ferdous Ahmed Biswash, who visited the spot after the incident, declined to comment on the matter.
Asked about the matter, Gulshan zone assistant commissioner (traffic) Nusrat Jahan said that the traffic division did not handle the matter.
On October 2, ruling Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton shot at a nine-year-old schoolboy in the legs in Gaibandha.
Earlier on April 13, ruling Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan’s son Bakhtiar Alam Rony shot a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver and a rickshaw-puller who succumbed to the injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

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