Dhaka: A court here on Thursday placed owner of ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ bus Shahadat Hossain on a seven-day remand for interrogation over the killing two college students in a recent road accident on Airport Road.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Noor Nahar Yasmin passed the order when DB police inspector Kazi Shariful Islam, the investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court seeking a 10-day remand for him.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Shahadat Hossain, the owner of the killer bus (DM-Ba-11-9297), from the city on Wednesday noon.

Asked by the court whether he has anything to say, Shahadat said, “I bought the bus with my life’s savings. It was my mistake to buy the vehicle. If I knew that such a situation would occur, I wouldn’t have bought the vehicle. I also have no idea about such matters of drivers.”

Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of the college section of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as the bus of ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan ploughed through some students on the Airport Road on Sunday last.

A case was filed over the accident with Cantonment Police Station on Sunday night.