The family of Liyana Tripura Popy, a 23-year-old student who was killed in broad daylight in a hit-and-run case last month, has expressed disappointment since the lone offender managed to secure bail from a Dhaka court within seven days of his detention.
Joyonto Nikolas Tripura, Popy’s brother and plaintiff in the case said they were waiting for justice for his sister's murder.
“We faced pressure from the family of the offender but we did not bow down. We fought for it, but now it is quite disappointing for us since the offender has been released on bail,” he said.
On October 29, a Dhaka court granted bail to the minor in a hit-and-run case filed, that killed one and injured another in Gulshan, Dhaka, on October 18.
Judge Al-Asad Md Ashifuzzaman of the Juvenile court in Dhaka, issued the order after hearing a bail petition filed by his lawyer Shahid Uddin.
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The underage driver, now 17, was picked up from his residence in Dhanmondi on October 21 and a Dhaka court sent him to the Juvenile Development Centre in Gazipur.
On October 18, Liyana Tripura Popy, a beauty parlour employee, was killed when a vehicle ran over her and her colleague Srabanti Tripura on a rickshaw, on road 79 in Gulshan. Both of them were critically injured and were taken to a private hospital, where Liyana was declared dead.
Liyana’s younger brother Joyonto Tripura filed a case with Gulshan police station seeking justice.
According to documents produced in court, the minor was driving the vehicle recklessly and his involvement in the accident was confirmed by witnesses.
The minor also confessed he was driving the vehicle when the accident took place, as per the documents submitted in court on October 21.
Liyana, the secondof three siblings, moved to Dhaka four years ago to work at a beauty parlour in Gulshan two years ago. She was a second year student at Bandarban Government College.