The High Court the day past directed the owners of the vehicles without valid health files to accumulate their fitness certificates in months, beginning from August 1.
If an owner fails to do so, their motors would not be allowed to ply at the roads after September 30. The HC also stated that it would pass vital order to this effect at some point in the following hearing on October 15.
The HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam issued the suomoto (voluntary) rule the day past after the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) submitted a record before it, pronouncing a total of four, seventy-nine,320 vehicles without valid health certificates have been walking at the roads throughout us of a.
Among the motors, 2,s sixty-one113 are operating in the Dhaka department, 1,19,588 in Chattogram division, 26,240 in Rajshahi, 6,588 in Rangpur, 15,668 in Khulna, 44,805 in Sylhet, and five,338 in the Barishal department, the file referred to.
The vehicles are registered with the BRTA, but their fitness clearances have expired, the report additionally stated.
BRTA’s attorney, Advocate Rafiul Islam, submitted the file to the HC in line with its June 24 order.
During the listening, the HC requested the BRTA’s lawyer what BRTA become doing while automobiles without health certificates had been walking right under its nostril.
Lawyer Rafiul advised the court docket that the BRTA had filed 39,837 cases within the present-day year and fined a complete of Tk 6.Seventy-two crore for going for walks automobiles without legitimate fitness files.
Unfit automobiles are considered to be a key reason behind avenue accidents. Road safety got here to the fore after college students took to the streets twice over the last 12 months demanding safer roads.
The courtroom additionally asked why it must permit undeserving automobiles to run as they reason road injuries.
The BRTA has a whole lot of energy, along with jogging cell courts towards undeserving vehicles. However, it does no longer exercising the powers in this regard, the court docket said.
Earlier on June 24 this yr, BRTA submitted some other file announcing extra than 4. Fifty-eight lakh, not-worthy cars have been on the street, and 1.68 lakh of them had been operating inside the capital.
The automobiles are among 40.18 lakh registered with the BRTA, the file said.
As per the regulation, all automobiles, except for motorcycles, ought to have their health checked and their certificate renewed from the BRTA every 12 months.
According to the BRTA document, a few thirteen.91 lakh cars are required to have the health certificate renewed annually. The document did no longer point out whatever about the high, wide variety of motors that have been no longer registered with the BRTA.
On that day (June 24), the HC bench observed that not-worthy motors have been being pushed by using drivers without legitimate licences under the very nose of the regulation enforcers.
Following a document posted via The Daily Star on March 23, the HC bench on March 27 issued the suomoto rule asking the authorities concerned to explain as to why their state of being inactive to forestall undeserving cars from jogging and drivers without legitimate licences from using should no longer be declared unlawful.
Supreme Court lawyer Syed Mamun Mahbub had read out the newspaper document before the court. As consistent with the file headlined “No health doctors, but going for walks,” more than 70,000 automobiles did no longer have their health certificates renewed in 10 years, and a lot of them have been on the road.
In the rule of thumb, the courtroom asked why directives should not accept implementing the applicable legal guidelines, including the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983.
It also requested authorities to publish a document before it on undeserving vehicles, cars that are not registered with the BRTA, and drivers without valid licences.
Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik regarded the nation.