Battery-flee rickshaw drivers blocked the railway crossing within the capital’s Jurain from 11am to 1:30pm this present day (22 November), demonstrating for over three hours.
Clashes and chases-counter-chases had been reported between police and the drivers for the interval of this time.
The drivers staged the blockade to pronounce an impending ban on battery-flee rickshaws, primarily based on a High Court docket expose, and stressful permission to feature on the roads, acknowledged Nazmun Nahar, accountability officer at Shyampur police situation.
Police introduced the grief below regulate following the clash, for the interval of which the regulations enforcers baton-charged and fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters.
Within the intervening time, instruct products and companies between Dhaka and Narayanganj, Khulna and Rajshahi is in full cease attributable to the railway blockade, acknowledged Anwar Hossain, the placement master at Kamalapur Railway Location.
He acknowledged the instruct operations on the Padma Bridge route is no longer going to resume till the regulations enforcement agencies give a inexperienced signal.
Within the intervening time, locals acknowledged native BNP activists chased the protesting drivers round 2pm, who then moved away from that home and took inform someplace else.
Earlier the day before this present day (21 November), drivers if the battery-flee rickshaws staged a boulevard blockade and demonstrated in four locations within the capital for six-seven hours.
There became as soon as a clash between rickshaw drivers and regulations enforcement forces in Mohakhali within the afternoon.
All the arrangement thru this time, the protesters vandalised several constructions and automobiles of the regulations enforcement forces within the home.
Educate products and companies between Dhaka and the leisure of the nation had been suspended for six hours the day before this present day.
On Tuesday (19 November), the High Court docket directed authorities to impose restrictions or terminate battery-flee autorickshaws in Dhaka metropolis streets inner three days.
On the identical night a student of Jahangirnagar University, Afsana Karim became as soon as killed in an accident fascinating a battery-flee autorickshaw, which later sparked protests amongst students.
