Court Correspondent :
The Special Cousrt-5 of Dhaka on Sunday sentenced four persons to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) with a fine of Tk 200,000 each in a case filed for the death of four-year-old child Jihad, who fell into an abandoned deep tube-well of WASA in the capital’s Shahjahanpur area.
Judge Dr M Akhtaruzzaman of the special court passed the order on Sunday noon in his crowded courtroom. The court also decreed that, in default of payment
of fine, they will have to suffer two years more in the prison. Besides, two other accused persons were acquitted as the charges were not proved against them beyond all doubts.
The four accused persons are Bangladesh Railway’s Senior Sub-Assistant Engineer and Inspector of Tube-well Division- Md Jahangir Alam, Railway’s Assistant Engineer Md Nasir Uddin, Electrical Engineer Abu Ahmed Shaki and Contractor Abdus Salam alias Shafiqul Islam of M/S SR House. Two other Assistant Engineers Dipak Kumar Bhowmik and Saiful Islam were acquitted.
On December 26 in 2014, four-year-old Jihad died falling into a 17-inch diameter abandoned shaf near his house at Bangladesh Railway Colony in the Shahjahanpur area of the city. He was playing there with his friends. Later, his body was recovered by a band of local volunteers, the following day from inside the abandoned 600-ft deep tube-well of the Bangladesh Railway. Before that, the concerned authorities called off their search of about 23 hours.
On April 17 in 2015, Shahjahanpur Police Station SI Abu Zafar submitted the chargesheet of the case to the court against Jahangir and Salam in connection with the death of the child. But on June 4, 2015, Jihad’s father submitted a no-confidence petition against the investigation report of police. Later, on March 31, last year, the Investigation Officer of the case, Detective Branch SI Md Mizanur Rahman submitted the chargesheet of the case to the court against the six accused including the four acquitted persons.
The Special Cousrt-5 of Dhaka on Sunday sentenced four persons to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) with a fine of Tk 200,000 each in a case filed for the death of four-year-old child Jihad, who fell into an abandoned deep tube-well of WASA in the capital’s Shahjahanpur area.
Judge Dr M Akhtaruzzaman of the special court passed the order on Sunday noon in his crowded courtroom. The court also decreed that, in default of payment
of fine, they will have to suffer two years more in the prison. Besides, two other accused persons were acquitted as the charges were not proved against them beyond all doubts.
The four accused persons are Bangladesh Railway’s Senior Sub-Assistant Engineer and Inspector of Tube-well Division- Md Jahangir Alam, Railway’s Assistant Engineer Md Nasir Uddin, Electrical Engineer Abu Ahmed Shaki and Contractor Abdus Salam alias Shafiqul Islam of M/S SR House. Two other Assistant Engineers Dipak Kumar Bhowmik and Saiful Islam were acquitted.
On December 26 in 2014, four-year-old Jihad died falling into a 17-inch diameter abandoned shaf near his house at Bangladesh Railway Colony in the Shahjahanpur area of the city. He was playing there with his friends. Later, his body was recovered by a band of local volunteers, the following day from inside the abandoned 600-ft deep tube-well of the Bangladesh Railway. Before that, the concerned authorities called off their search of about 23 hours.
On April 17 in 2015, Shahjahanpur Police Station SI Abu Zafar submitted the chargesheet of the case to the court against Jahangir and Salam in connection with the death of the child. But on June 4, 2015, Jihad’s father submitted a no-confidence petition against the investigation report of police. Later, on March 31, last year, the Investigation Officer of the case, Detective Branch SI Md Mizanur Rahman submitted the chargesheet of the case to the court against the six accused including the four acquitted persons.
