(33.89) High Court directive to stop toll without specific terminals
The High Court has directed the defendants to stop the toll outside the jurisdiction of buses, trucks and other mechanized transport, creating obstruction in the city corporation, municipality and upazila council areas without specific terminals. Besides, the High Court has issued rule to know why the illegal toll will not be declared illegally outside the jurisdiction of all the transport vehicles in the city corporation, municipality and upazila parishad areas without bus, truck terminals.
As the defendant of the case, the secretary of the local government and rural development ministry, senior secretary, deputy secretary, road mishap and bridge secretary secretary, all divisional commissioners, police chief and chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) have been asked to implement the directive of the High Court and respond to the relevant rule. .
Judge JBM Hassan and Justice Md Jahangir Hossain on Tuesday (July 24th) on the preliminary hearing of a writ petition. A Hoyuk Court bench comprising Khairul Alam ordered the bench.
Advocate Tawfiq Inam on behalf of the court petitioned the petition. Advocate Tanjib Rashid Khan accompanied him. On the other hand Deputy Attorney General Motahar Hossain Saju was present for the state.
Later Toufiq Inam told reporters that the extortion of all types of transport including bus-trucks at the rate of 40 to 50 rupees in the name of toll through the Izaharadar is completely illegal. Because of this extortion, merchants added additional value to the product. As a result, the impact of the customer, the customer or the ordinary passengers. For this, they have to spend extra money. Therefore, the writ of the High Court was stopped to stop such extortion.
On December 3, 2015, the Local Government and Rural Development Ministry issued a directive to the concerned authorities not toll all the buses including trucks, buses and trucks, creating obstacle in the roads and highways of all the city corporations, municipalities and upazila parishad areas of the country. But despite the fact that the collections of tolls are going on.
As a result, the writ petition was filed on July 22 in the court of directors of Kushtia district truck mallik group general secretary Soumendra Nath Saha toll tax, to stop these extortion. The court issued a rule in response to the writ petition filed by the court.