Staff Reporter :
The government has filed a leave to appeal petition with the Appellate Division against a High Court verdict that ordered the government to give Tk 171.10 million as compensation to the victim families of a 2003 launch capsize in the Meghna River.
After hearing on September 2, 2019, the Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, sent the petition to the full bench for hearing on March 8, 2020.
A copy of the Chamber Judge’s order came to this reporter yesterday.
Secretary of the Ministry of Shipping filed the petition recently, said advocate Ishrat Hasan, a lawyer for the BIWTA (Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority).
On June 5, 2017, the High Court upheld a lower court verdict that ordered the government to give Tk 171.10 million as compensation to the victim families of a 2003 launch capsize in the Meghna River.
Families of the dead victims of MV Nasrin -1 capsize, will get Tk 10 lakh each and the injured will get Tk 1 lakh each, the HC ruled.
The launch was capsized on July 8, 2003 at the Padma, Meghna and Dakatia confluence in Chandpur leaving 110 people dead, about 200 missing and many others injured.
The bench of Justice Syed Md Ziaul Karim and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain came up with the verdict after rejecting a revision petition filed by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority against the trial court verdict.
The government has filed a leave to appeal petition with the Appellate Division against a High Court verdict that ordered the government to give Tk 171.10 million as compensation to the victim families of a 2003 launch capsize in the Meghna River.
After hearing on September 2, 2019, the Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, sent the petition to the full bench for hearing on March 8, 2020.
A copy of the Chamber Judge’s order came to this reporter yesterday.
Secretary of the Ministry of Shipping filed the petition recently, said advocate Ishrat Hasan, a lawyer for the BIWTA (Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority).
On June 5, 2017, the High Court upheld a lower court verdict that ordered the government to give Tk 171.10 million as compensation to the victim families of a 2003 launch capsize in the Meghna River.
Families of the dead victims of MV Nasrin -1 capsize, will get Tk 10 lakh each and the injured will get Tk 1 lakh each, the HC ruled.
The launch was capsized on July 8, 2003 at the Padma, Meghna and Dakatia confluence in Chandpur leaving 110 people dead, about 200 missing and many others injured.
The bench of Justice Syed Md Ziaul Karim and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain came up with the verdict after rejecting a revision petition filed by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority against the trial court verdict.
The triple-decker vessel was on its way to Lalmohan in Bhola from Dhaka with about 700 passengers on board. The owner of the launch died in the incident.
The same year, deputy commissioner of Chandpur published a list of 400 people who were affected by the incident of capsize.
Following the list, the shipping-disaster trustee board gave Tk 15,000 to Tk 20,000 to the families of the deceased’s and injured persons as compensation.
In 2004, BLAST, on behalf of the affected people, filed a case with the Third Joint District Judges’ Court of Dhaka claiming that the given compensation was not adequate.
