Staff Correspondent
 |
| A photo collected from Shabab Chowdhury's Facebook profile shows the Audi SUV before the accident |
Police on Wednesday initiated an investigation after a man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in the capital’s Mohakhali area on Tuesday night.
Police spotted a sports utility vehicle, owned by Kamrun Nahar Shewli, wife of an Awami League leader and a member of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad for Noakhali-4 constituency, but was yet to determine who was driving the vehicle.
Ekramul Karim Chowdhury MP told New Age that the SUV (Dhaka Metro Gha 13-7655) was owned by his wife and the car was being driven by one of her chauffeurs.
Shewli is also the chairman of Kabirhat Upazila Parishad in Noakhali. But, witnesses who chased the SUV until it took a U-turn near the Mohakhali flyover and sped up to flee away said the man in the driving seat identified himself as Shabab Chowdhury, son of the lawmaker, and instantly revved up the car leaving the man dead in the street.
Ekram insisted that it was not his son and said, ‘We’ve five to six drivers but [I am] not sure which driver was driving the car... I was in Noakhali... it was an accident ... an accident is an accident’.
Police could neither seize the SUV nor arrest anyone until Wednesday night.
Mirpur police deputy commissioner Masud Ahmed said, ‘We are trying to find out who was driving the car.’
He said police had a number of video footages which they would use to confirm who was responsible for the killing and if driver was intoxicated.
The victim was identified at Selim Bepari, also a driver, who was returning home from Mohakhali DOHS area.
Police and eyewitnesses said that the SUV was proceeding towards the Mohakhali flyover about 10:30pm on Tuesday and hit Selim when it was near the flyover.
Police took the body for further proceedings as a case was filed with Kafrul police by the victim’s family.
- Courtesy — New Age/June 21, 2018
No comments:
Post a Comment