UNB, Dhaka :
A court here on Friday placed seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on an eight-day fresh remand in a case filed over the glitch in a VVIP flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Wajkuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order after Inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) M Mahbubul Alam produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand each.
Those remanded are: Biman chief engineer Debesh Chowdhury, chief engineer (quality assurance) SS Siddique, principal engineer (system and maintenance) Billal Hossain, engineers Shamiul Haque, Niron Chandra Bishwas, Lutfar Rahman and Zakir Hossain.
A team of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested them from different areas of the city on December 21. On December 20, Director (Engineering and Management) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines MM Asaduzzaman filed a case against nine officials of the national flag carrier with Airport Police Station under the Special Powers Act.
On the following day, the DMP headquarters issued an order to transfer the case to the CTTC unit from Airport Police Station. A Biman flight carrying the Prime Minister had to make an emergency landing at AshgabatInternationalAirport in Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest on November 27 following low oil pressure in its engine. Three probe panels were formed by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) and Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry on November 28 to look into the flight trouble. A total of nine officials, including three engineers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, were suspended for their negligence of duty in this connection.
A court here on Friday placed seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on an eight-day fresh remand in a case filed over the glitch in a VVIP flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate M Wajkuruni Khan Chowdhury passed the order after Inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) M Mahbubul Alam produced them before the court seeking a 10-day remand each.
Those remanded are: Biman chief engineer Debesh Chowdhury, chief engineer (quality assurance) SS Siddique, principal engineer (system and maintenance) Billal Hossain, engineers Shamiul Haque, Niron Chandra Bishwas, Lutfar Rahman and Zakir Hossain.
A team of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested them from different areas of the city on December 21. On December 20, Director (Engineering and Management) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines MM Asaduzzaman filed a case against nine officials of the national flag carrier with Airport Police Station under the Special Powers Act.
On the following day, the DMP headquarters issued an order to transfer the case to the CTTC unit from Airport Police Station. A Biman flight carrying the Prime Minister had to make an emergency landing at AshgabatInternationalAirport in Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest on November 27 following low oil pressure in its engine. Three probe panels were formed by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) and Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry on November 28 to look into the flight trouble. A total of nine officials, including three engineers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, were suspended for their negligence of duty in this connection.
