The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a High Court (HC) order that directed the owner of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan to pay Tk5 lakh each to the families of Abdul Karim Rajib and Diya Khanam Mim, who were crushed to death by a bus of that company in Dhaka on July 29.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order through expelling an appeal filed by Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan seeking cancellation of the HC order.
A High Court order on July 30 directed Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan to pay Tk5 lakh to each of the grieving families of the two victims.
The court also had ordered the bus owner to bear all the medical bills of the nine students injured in the July 29 incident.
The court gave the bus company a week's ultimatum to pay the respective families.
Diya and Rajib, both students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment School and College, were killed when a speeding Jabal-e-Noor bus ploughed into a crowd of students of that institution, waiting for transportation, on the side of the city’s Airport Road.
The incident, which left several other students injured too, had sparked a nationwide student movement demanding safer roads and strict implementation of the traffic laws.
