Passengers misery mounts as transport strike goes on
UNB
Chuadanga: An indefinite strike enforced by Bus-Truck Workers Union on all routes of the district entered the fourth day yesterday, worsening the woes of passengers, reports UNB.
Bus-Truck Workers Union of Chuadanga called the indefinite strike across the district on Wednesday afternoon protesting the life-term imprisonment of a bus driver in a case filed over a road accident that killed five people, including noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and cinematographer Mishuk Munier.
M General Islam, president of Bus-Truck Workers Union of Chuadanga, said they are going to sit in a divisional meeting with union leaders this morning to announce the tougher action programmes if the bus driver Jamir is not freed unconditionally.On Wednesday, a court in Manikganj sentenced bus driver Jamir Hossain, 48, of Daulatdiar village of Chuadanga district, to life term imprisonment in a case filed over the deaths of Tareque and Munier in the tragic road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway in 2011.The court also fined the driver Tk 5,000 and he will have to suffer three months more imprisonment in default to pay the fine.
He was also awarded two years more imprisonment and fined Tk 2000, in default, to serve one month more imprisonment, for using his expired driving license during the incident.Tareque Masud, Mishuk Munier and three others were killed as a microbus, carrying them, collided with a bus, driven by the convict Jamir, on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Ghior upazila while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj on August 13, 2011.
