Lawmaker Benjir Ahmed, also chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Home Affairs, recently shared that a nosimon hit his car on the highway at Dhamrai in Dhaka a few weeks back, damaging the car slightly.

As the car was comparatively big, he and other people who were in it could fortunately escape a fatal accident.
If the car were small, something more serious might have occurred, Benjir, member of parliament from Dhaka-20 constituency (Dhamrai), said at the 19th founding anniversary of Highway Police at Rajarbagh Police Lines in the capital on 11 June.

Drawing the attention of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, the lawmaker asked him to bar the movement of such vehicles on the roads and highways.
Along with nosimon, vehicles like korimon, bhotbhoti and other three wheelers, including tractor-run vehicles and mahendra, are plying highways, regional highways and main roads of districts, causing accidents.

Different workshops and garages across the country are making the illegal nosimon, korimon and bhotbhoti, but the authorities concerned seem to be indifferent about stopping the manufacturing and movement of these vehicles.

New Model Nosimon Tomtom Gari in Pabna Sadar, Munna Engineering and Sumon Engineering in Kazirhat in Shariatpur are among many workshops which make such vehicles.
Mohammad Momin, the owner of the New Model Nosimon Tomtom Gari, told the Daily Sun that they have been making and selling such vehicles without any restriction of law enforcers and other authorities.
When contacted, Enamul Haque Sagor, SP (media) of Police Headquarters, told the Daily Sun that they take action against the movement of such vehicles, but were unaware about drives against workshops making the vehicles.

On Friday, at least two people were killed and six injured as a mahendra and a private car collided head-on at Matabari in Madhupur in Tangail, confirmed Molla Azizur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Madhupur Police Station.

When asked if the mahendra had permission to ply, Kaisarul Islam, deputy commissioner and district magistrate of Tangail, told the Daily Sun that he was unaware of the matter.
A teenager was seen driving a tractor-run vehicle on the road at Purba Naudoba in Zajira of Shariatpur on Friday morning.
The tractor was sand-laden. When it was moving with its enormous wheels on the road, other vehicles moved aside to let it go ahead by slowing down or stopping to avoid collision.
Some other tractor-run vehicles were also seen on the road.

When contacted, Muhammad Nizam Uddin Ahmed, deputy commissioner and district magistrate of Shariatpur, told the Daily Sun that the tractor-run vehicles have no permission to ply.
“But we cannot stop those, thinking that the farmers will face difficulties in carrying their crops and corn without these vehicles,” he said.

On 1 August 2015, the government banned nosimon, korimon, bhotbhoti, three-wheeler, auto-rickshaw, auto-tempo and non-motorised vehicles on 22 divisional highways, according to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).

A 2023 report of BRTA states that they, along with the district administrations and the Highway Police are regularly operating mobile courts and drives against such vehicles.
Sheikh Mohammad Mahbub-e-Rabbani, director (road safety) of the BRTA, told the Daily Sun that despite the ban, the vehicles are running on the highways.

They are taking action, he added.
On 25 January 2017, the High Court (HC) directed the DIG of Highway Police and SPs of 10 districts to take necessary steps against nosimon, korimon and bhotbhoti.

On 8 May this year, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) sent a legal notice to the Highway Police and 10 SPs to implement the directives of the HC within seven days.
The SPs are of Jashore, Khulna, Kushtia, Narail, Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Meherpur, Satkhira, Magura and Bagerhat.
The legal notice stated of placing headway reports to the HC.

When contacted, Chairman of the HRPB Advocate Manjil Morshed told the Daily Sun that it could not be known if the Highway Police unit and the SPs placed the progress reports before the HC.
Md. Shamsul Alam, additional DIG (HR and Media) of Highway Police, told the Daily Sun that only 3,000 km of highway out of 21,888.46 km across the country is under their surveillance while the rest of the highways and roads are under the watch of district police.

He said that the Highway Police with its only 2,900 manpower monitor the 3,000 km and so, they cannot check such vehicles cent percent.
He said that 65,000 nosimons, korimons, three wheelers and others came under the prosecution of the Highway Police in 2023.

The officer added that a proposal for recruiting 6,000 manpower was already given to the ministry concerned. If the manpower is approved, the Highway Police unit will be more vibrant.
The BRTA data shows that 7,837 vehicles were involved in accidents last year. Of those, buses and mini-buses (1,830), motorcycles (1,747), and trucks and covered vans (1,389), were the most involved in road mishaps.
The remaining 10 vehicle types were involved in a total of 3,618 accidents, including Auto-rickshaws – 497, and easy-bikes – 217.