Dhaka: A Supreme Court lawyer on Wednesday filed a petition with High Court seeking the withdrawal of the countrywide indefinite transport strike within 24 hours.

Supreme Court lawyer Monzil Morshed filed the writ petition challenging the legality of the transport strike enforced by Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, protesting the life term imprisonment of a bus driver in a case filed for a road accident that left five people killed.

An HC bench, comprising Justice Syed Mohammad Dastgir Hossain and Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan, is likely to hear the petition in the afternoon.

The nationwide strike entered the second day on Wednesday, causing immense sufferings passengers and hitting the business sector hard.

In Dhaka, no inter‐district bus left Gabtoli, Mohakhali or Sayedabad bus terminals so far today while very few buses were seen plying the city streets.

On 13 August in 2011, Tareque and Mishuk along with three others were killed in a tragic road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Ghior upazila of Manikganj while returning to Dhaka from Manikganj after visiting a filming location.

The accident happened when a microbus carrying the two celebrities collided with a bus on the highway.