Battery-urge rickshaw drivers blocked the railway crossing in 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 at some level of this time.
Extra than 200 drivers staged the blockade to utter an impending ban on battery-urge rickshaws, in accordance to a High Court docket represent, and anxious permission to goal on the roads, acknowledged Nazmun Nahar, accountability officer at Shyampur police home.
Police brought the downside under control following the clashes, at some stage at some level of which the legislation enforcers baton-charged and fired teargas shells to disperse the protesters.
At round 2pm, local BNP activists chased the protesting drivers, who then moved some distance from there, took a put in a nearby space and endured protesting.
Within the meantime, practice products and companies between Dhaka and Narayanganj, Khulna and Rajshahi had been suspended after the blockade started.
The products and companies resumed at round 3pm after the protesters left the space, Anwar Hossain, the home grasp at Kamalapur Railway Plot, told Prothom Alo.
Prepare operations on the Narayanganj route and the Padma Bridge route in direction of Khulna and Rajshahi had been now peaceable, he acknowledged.
All over the demonstrations, the drivers had clashed with legislation enforcers in the Mohakhali and Khilgaon areas. In addition they vandalised several constructions and vehicles of the legislation enforcement forces at Mohakhali.
Moreover, practice products and companies between Dhaka and masses of of the nation had been suspended for six hours resulting from the blockade at Mohakhali the previous day.
On Tuesday (19 November), the High Court docket directed authorities to cease the operation of battery-urge rickshaws in Dhaka metropolis streets inner three days.
On the same evening a Jahangirnagar College student, Afsana Karim, modified into killed in an accident appealing a battery-urge rickshaw, which later sparked protests among students.
