Noting that frequent traffic accidents reflected failure of the authorities concerned to regulate heavy traffic, a sessions court on 28-February-2025 revoked the interim pre-arrest bail of a dumper driver accused of running over and killing three young motorcyclists in Korangi.
Saeed Umar was booked under manslaughter charges after the dumper he was driving ran over and killed Shoukat, 20, and his cousins Amjad, 24, and Muhammad Asif, 28, who were riding a motorcycle, within the Zaman Town police remits on February 8.
He was granted interim pre-arrest bail by the court against a Rs100,000 surety on February 20. On Friday, his bail application came up for hearing before Additional Sessions Judge (East) Shahid Ali Memon for its confirmation or otherwise. After hearing both sides, the judge dismissed the application and revoked the suspect’s bail.
He observed that this court was fully cognizant about the law of the land as punishment for an offence under Section 322 (qatl-bis-sabab) of Pakistan Penal Code was diyat but it did not mean that every irresponsible driver is given a licence for running vehicles without taking safety measures and care.
He said the tragic incident took place due to great negligence on the part of the dumper driver, which deprived three youngsters of their lives without their fault. “It may not be forgotten that the incident in hand is not an ordinary incident in which three youngsters have lost their lives, but the incident is against the entire society,” the judge opined. “I would like to add here that not only the above named youngsters have lost their lives but their families have been deprived from their natural right of seeing their future happiness in terms of their marriages, jobs, earnings etc,” he added.
The judge said the accused was not entitled to bail, which was an extraordinary relief and always given under extraordinary circumstances, adding that at this stage and under such circumstances, if the bail was confirmed, then it would amount to encouraging the dumper driver as well as others like him to commit similar crimes fearlessly and it would also amount to provide him a safe passage either to abscond or tamper with the prosecution evidence.
“I have also noted with great concern that the traffic incidents/accidents always occur due to great carelessness and negligence of the concerned state functionaries and the frequent occurring of such unpleasant/traffic/shocking accidents reflect failure of concerned authorities for regulating the heavy traffic,” the judge noted.
He hoped that the authorities concerned would learn a lesson from the “sacrifices of the above-named three youngsters and worries of their families and issue strict directions to concerned quarters for regulating the heavy traffic so that such kind of incidents may not occur”.
Published in News Daily on 01-March-2025.