Wildcat bus strike causes public sufferings in Ctg

CHATTOGRAM, Oct 21 (UNB): Thousands of city dwellers faced immense sufferings as bus owners and workers went on a wildcat strike on Monday protesting punishment of a bus owner and two workers by a mobile court.

Bus Owners Association General Secretary Belayet Hossain said it was not a decision of the association but the bus owners refrained from operating their buses which has caused the public sufferings.

Office- goers and school students were seen walking or taking rickshaw or CNG-run auto-rickshaws for reaching their destinations in the morning.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) executive magistrate SM Manjurul Haque said a mobile court sentenced a bus owner to a 15-day jail and its driver and his assistant to one month jail as they were running an unfit bus in front of Chandgaon thana on Sunday.