Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka Court on Wednesday placed two more suspended staff of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a seven-day remand each in case filed over the emergency landing of a VVIP plane carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Turkmenistan.
Magistrate Zakir Hossain passed the order after Mahbub Alam, Inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit, produced engineer Rokonuzzaman and technician Siddiqur Rahman to the court. Mahbub sought 10 days’ remand to interrogate the duo.
On December 21, (retired) Wing Commander MM Asaduzzaman, Director of Engineering and Material Management of Biman, filed the case against nine employees under the Special Powers Act with Airport Police Station. Of them, seven were arrested soon after the case was filed. They were placed on remand on December 22. Rokonuzzaman and Siddiqur Rahman surrendered to a Dhaka court, that sent them to the jail on the same day.
On November 27, a plane of Biman, carrying the Prime Minister had to make an emergency landing at the Ashgabat International Airport of Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest as engine-1 of the plane was losing oil pressure. After emergency landing, engineers found a nut loose which was causing oil pressure loss.
Biman authorities formed a technical probe committee the following day to find the reason behind the incident. Based on the findings of the probe committee, Biman authorities first suspended six employees and later three others, and filed the case against them.
