Agartala: Agartala-Dhaka bus service which, was temporarily suspended following torching of India’s ‘Maitree’ passenger bus by a mob at Narsingdi in Bangladesh, will resume on next Monday, official sources said.
The repair of a spare ‘Maitree’ bus would be completed within a few days and the Agartala-Dhaka bus service will resume on next Monday, the sources said.
The authorities had to discontinue the service of Maitree after one bus was torched in a case of mistaken identity during a political clash on Friday, while the spare bus was under repair, the sources said.
A two-member team of Tripura Road Transport Corporation (TRTC) would leave for Narsingdi, 70 km from here, on Tuesday to lodge a formal complaint with the police there and conduct an inquiry into the incident, the sources said.
Following the suspension, no bus left for Dhaka from here on Monday, but the service of ‘Shyamali’ is continuing, TRTC sources said. Maitree, with 12 Indians and 10 Bangladeshis on board, was torched in a case of mistaken identity during a political clash in the area, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran had informed Tripura Chief Secretary Sanjoy Kumar Panda. No paggengers were injured.
The Agartala-Dhaka bus service was started in September 2003. (PTI)