The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested the driver of the Uttara Unique Paribahan Bus over a crash that cost the lives of 15 people last Tuesday.
The driver was arrested from a market in Kotchandpur Upazila Sadar area of Jhenaidah district on Sunday afternoon, according to the Faridpur company captain of RAB-10, Lt. Commander KM Shaikh Akhtar.
The arrestee Khokon Mia is the son of Delwar Hossain, a resident of Kotchandpur upazila of Jhenaidah district.
Details will be disclosed in a press briefing on Monday at 11:30am, added the RAB officer.
Enamul Sheikh, the elder brother of Iqbal Hossain, who died in the road crash on April 16, filed a case against the bus driver at Faridpur Kotwali police station.
Meanwhile, a 7-member investigation committee headed by Additional District Magistrate Md Ali Siddiqui was formed by the district administration to investigate the accident.