Baridhara crash: Teenager denied bail again

A court in Dhaka on Wednesday rejected the bail petition of 17-year-old Azan Al Sharif, who was arrested in a case filed over the death of speech-impaired Mehedi Hasan Mim after a car ran him over on a footpath in Baridhara, Dhaka.

Judge Md Abdul Muqtadir of the Dhaka Children’s Court-8 passed the order after a hearing, said State Prosecutor Mohammad Sharif Uddin Mamun.

He said the defence sought bail on the grounds that the accused was a child and that a compromise had already been reached with the plaintiff, while the prosecution opposed the bail petition.

Former Dhaka Bar Association president Khorshed Mia Alam argued for bail on behalf of the teenager.

After hearing both sides, the court rejected the bail plea. 

Earlier, his bail petition was scheduled for a hearing before the same court on 27 September. The court later fixed 4 October for a further hearing.

According to the case documents, Mehedi Hasan Mim, 24, hailed from Nilphamari and worked as a construction worker in the Gulshan area. 

Around 5pm on 22 September, a speeding car mounted the footpath and ran him over while he was sitting there and taking a rest on Road No 1 in the Baridhara Diplomatic Zone.

Mehedi sustained severe injuries and was taken to Kurmitola General Hospital, where the attending doctor declared him “brought dead”, citing a road traffic accident (RTA) as the cause of death.

Mehedi’s elder brother, Md Moktadir Islam, filed a case with Gulshan Police Station on 23 September against a man named Akash Mark, who is currently absconding, under Sections 98 and 105 of the Road Transport Act, 2018, in connection with the incident.