The arrestee is Manju Sarker, the owner of ‘Challenger Paribahan’.
UNB Bagura correspondent reports: A team of police arrested Manju from Madhya Palsa area of the district town around 12:30pm.
The arrested bus owner told police during interrogation that that he had bought the unfit BRTC bus at an auction and started to operate it on Kushtia-Bagura road after repairing.
Mofiz Uddin, manager (operation) of BRTC Bagura Bus Depot, said that there is no option of operating unfit and abandoned bus on road after its sale at auction.
Manju also revealed that the name of the bus driver is Shamim, a resident of Malgram and helper is Komol, a resident of Gokul village in Sada rupazila.
According his information, police conducted a drive to arrest the driver and the helper who went into hiding after the incident.
UNB Natore correspondent reports: A case was filed against seven people over the fatal road accident.
The accused are the president of Bonpara Human Hauler (Leguna) Owners’ Association, its secretary, owners and drivers of the bus and human hauler involved in the accident, and the helper of the human hauler.
Assistant Sub-inspector YousufMiah of Bonpara Highway Police Station filed the case on Saturday night with Lalpur Police Station, said Sub-inspector Tarikul Islam of the police station, also investigation officer of the case.
The accident took place when the Bagura-bound bus of ‘Challenger Paribahan’ from Pabna hit the human-hauler (locally named as leguna) carrying 15 passengers around 4:10 pm, leaving 13 passengers of the human-hauler dead on the spot and 15 bus travellers injured.
The rest two succumbed to their injuries at a local hospital.