The police filed 50 cases and seized five vehicles in a joint drive conducted on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway for violations of laws, including reckless driving, driving without fitness certificates and driving licences early Saturday.
The initiative was taken following increase in fatal road crashes on the road recently.
Hashara highway thana officer-in-charge Abdul Kader Jilani said that the drive started at about 12:00am on Saturday and concluded at about 4:00am.
It was jointly conducted by the members of the highway police, thana police and Rapid Action Battalion from Dhaleswari toll plaza in the Dakkhin Keraniganj area in Dhaka to Lauhajang area under Mawa in Munshiganj to check reckless driving, he continued.
The drive was headed by the highway police鈥檚 additional deputy inspector general AKM Aktaruzzaman Basunia.
For different offences including reckless driving and driving without fitness certificates and driving licences 50 cases were filed against different vehicles and fined Tk 2 lakh in total.
Police also seized four buses and one motorcycle for not having updated documents.
Four people were killed and 12 others injured in two separate road accidents on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Srinagar upazila due to dense fog in the early hours of Friday.
Six people, including three children, were killed and four others were injured when a speeding bus rammed into three vehicles waiting in a queue at the Dhaleswari toll plaza on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj on December 27.
Multiple-vehicle collisions, caused by dense fog, on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway, on December 22 morning left one person dead and 11 injured.
