Staff Correspondent

A mobile court of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority filed 27 cases against different vehicles and some drivers, and realised Tk 15,600 in fines during a drive in Dhaka on Wednesday.

The court, during the drive in Victoria Park area of the Old Town, also seized a minibus and a taxicab for not having any documents. BRTA executive magistrate (deputy secretary) Abdur Rashid led the court.

The cases were filed against CNG-run auto-rickshaws, taxicabs, human haulers, buses and other mode of transports for not having documents like updated route permits, registrations, fitness certificates and tax tokens, and against the drivers for not having driving licenses and flouting traffic rules, Rashid said.

BRTA runs the court in busy roads and areas including Manik Miah Avenue, Dar-us-Salam Road of Mirpur, Rampura, Khilgaon and Jatrabari.

The BRTA launched its mobile court drive in April 2007 in the wake of widespread allegations of harassment of passengers by the CNG auto-rickshaw and cab drivers across the city.

The then government in 2002 introduced the meter-fare system for four-stroke CNG auto-rickshaws and taxicabs in the capital by phasing out the two-stroke auto-rickshaws.

But the drivers of CNG auto-rickshaws did not abide by the government rules causing immense sufferings to the passengers. The BRTA is currently conducting drive against all modes of motorised transports, BRTA officials said.

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