The High Court today ordered the owners of two buses -- BRTC and Shajan Paribahan—to pay Tk 1 crore to the family of Rajib Hossain who lost his right hand in a road accident and later died last month.

The bus owners have been asked to pay Tk 50 lakh in a month to the account of Rajib's aunt Jahanara Begum and their relative customs officer Omar Faruk with Sonali Bank’s Motijheel branch.

The HC also directed the bus owners to submit a report after complying with the order to this court by June 25.

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The court said it would fix the next date for paying the remaining Tk 50 lakh after receiving the compliance report.

The bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq came up with the order while hearing a rule issued by the bench on April 4 over the matter.

Jahanara and Rajib’s two brothers -- Mehedi Hasan Bappy, 13, and Abdullah, 11, who are madrasa students –were present in the court when the High Court passed the order.

Rajib's aunt told the court that she has brought up Rajib's two brothers and she will continue to do so in future.

After two weeks in coma, Rajib Hossain, a third-year student of Government Titumir College, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on April 17.

Rajib lost the hand after it got stuck between two speeding buses of BRTC and Shajan Paribahan which were trying to overtake each other on April 3.

Profusely bleeding, he was taken to Samorita Hospital in Panthapath. He was at the post operative intensive care unit (ICU) on the day of the accident.