A court has granted bail to Md Rakib Hossain, an accused in a case filed over the death of schoolteacher Ronjila Parvin, who fell from a moving auto-rickshaw after a mugger snatched her bag in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
Judge Ayesha Akter Mousumi of the Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court-2 in Dhaka granted him bail on a bond of Tk5,000 following a hearing on Sunday afternoon.
Defence lawyer Md Mehdi Hasan Majumdar said the court granted Rakib bail until the submission of the police report in the case. As there are no other cases against him, there is no legal barrier to his release from jail, he added.
Rakib was the owner of the motorcycle that was initially seized following the incident. The motorcycle was not used in the snatching, he claimed.
The lawyer said the vehicle was in a garage at the time of the incident, and CCTV footage is available to support that claim. The vehicle allegedly used in the snatching was later recovered. The defence also alleged that Rakib had been implicated in the case with the intention of harassing him.
According to the case statement, Ronjila was the head teacher of Bagbari Government Primary School in Gabtali upazila of Bogura. On August 29, she was travelling to Dhaka by auto-rickshaw with her husband, Md Abdul Matin, to visit an eye specialist.
At around 5:55am, when they reached the road adjacent to Gate No. 12 of the Parliament building on Manik Mia Avenue, snatchers arriving on a motorcycle grabbed her handbag and pulled it forcefully. As a result, Ronjila was thrown from the moving auto-rickshaw onto the paved road, sustaining severe head injuries.
She was first taken to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital. As her condition deteriorated, doctors declared her dead while she was being transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Following the incident, her husband, Abdul Matin, filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
