Teenager gets bail in Baridhara car accident case

A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to a 17-year-old child in a case filed over the death of a construction worker who was hit by a private car in the capital’s Baridhara area on 22 September.

Judge Md Abdul Muktadir of the Dhaka Juvenile Court-8 passed the order after hearing the bail petition.

Public prosecutor Mohammad Sharif Uddin Mamun confirmed the matter, saying the teenager’s lawyer filed the bail petition on Thursday, while the prosecution opposed it. After hearing both sides, the court granted bail.

Earlier, he was sent to a juvenile correction centre by a court on 24 September. His bail petitions were rejected twice.

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

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Around 5pm on 22 September, a speeding car mounted the footpath and ran him over while he was sitting there and resting 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.

On the day of the incident, bystanders detained the boy in the driver’s seat and handed him over to police. Police later reportedly handed him over to his family after questioning.

However, following criticism, police subsequently brought him before the court after analysing video footage and finding his involvement in the incident.

According to sources, the 17-year-old is an O-Level student at an English-medium school in Dhaka’s Gulshan area. His father is a captain at Biman Bangladesh Airlines, while the private car involved in the accident is registered in his mother’s name.