Law Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said the Road Transport Act 2018, which came into effect last month, will be a milestone for bringing discipline to the country’s roads and highways after pronouncement of a lower court verdict in connection with the death of two students of the Cantonment’s Shaheed Ramizuddin School & College after they were hit by a recklessly driven public bus.
“The government will do whatever is needed for the implementation of the verdict as soon as possible and the paperbook of the verdict will be placed before the High Court,” said the Minister while giving his reaction about the verdict.
“The government will do whatever is needed to made the Road Transport Act acceptable,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Kayes sentenced three people, including two drivers of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan, to life terms in prison in the case filed over the deaths of the two college students in a road crash on Airport Road in the city on July 29, 2018.