Police arrest teenage driver after media reports question exclusion from fatal accident case

Police have arrested a teenage driver of a car over suspected involvement in a fatal road crash in the capital’s Baridhara area, after media reports raised questions over his exclusion from the relevant case.

The victim Mehedi Hasan’s elder brother Moktadir Islam filed a case over unnatural death with the Gulshan Police Station on Tuesday night, hours after the road crash, but did not name the teenager as an accused.

However, as media questioned the teenager’s exclusion from the list of accused, police arrested the 17-year-old from a residence in Gulshan on Wednesday after reviewing CCTV footages of the incident.

Gulshan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Jahed Noor confirmed the arrest.

The teenager studies at “O” level in an English medium school in Gulshan. His father is a captain of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and the car is registered under his mother’s name.

In the case statement, Akash Marak, 44, was identified as the driver of the car and named as an accused. He has remained missing since the fatal crash that left day labourer Mehedi Hossain, 24, dead.