Staff Reporter :
A legal notice has been served to the respondents as they did not comply with the High Court (HC) verdict to pay Tk 20 lakh within 90 days as compensation to the family of four-year old boy Jihad, who died falling down a 300-foot well shaft in the capital’s Shahjahanpur in 2014.
On Monday, Barrister Abdul Halim, a Supreme Court lawyer, on behalf of Jihad’s family sent the notice.
Md Amzad Hossain, Director General of Bangladesh
Railway, Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan, Director General of Fire Service and Civil Defence and Major A K M Shakil Newaz, Director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, are asked to pay the compensation within 14 days.
If they fail to pay the money within the time a contempt of court petition will be filed with the High Court against them, said the notice.
On October 9 in 2017, the High Court released the full verdict of a writ petition filed over the death of four-year-old Jihad, asking the authorities concerned of the government to pay Tk 20 lakh as compensation to his parents.
As per the direction, Bangladesh Railway, and Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence will pay Tk 10 lakh each within 90 days.
In the judgment, the HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo said, “This order of awarding compensation will not impede/affect other liabilities, if there be any, of the respondents concern or each officials resulting in from the death of the said victim [Jihad].”
Following a writ petition moved by Barrister Md Abdul Halim on behalf of rights organization –Children’s Charity Bangladesh Foundation — the HC on February 18, 2016 had delivered its short judgment saying that the government would have to compensate the family of Jihad, but the court had not specifically said any amount of the compensation.
Jihad fell into an unprotected well shaft while playing with other children in Shahjahanpur Railway Colony on December 26, 2014.
A legal notice has been served to the respondents as they did not comply with the High Court (HC) verdict to pay Tk 20 lakh within 90 days as compensation to the family of four-year old boy Jihad, who died falling down a 300-foot well shaft in the capital’s Shahjahanpur in 2014.
On Monday, Barrister Abdul Halim, a Supreme Court lawyer, on behalf of Jihad’s family sent the notice.
Md Amzad Hossain, Director General of Bangladesh
Railway, Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan, Director General of Fire Service and Civil Defence and Major A K M Shakil Newaz, Director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, are asked to pay the compensation within 14 days.
If they fail to pay the money within the time a contempt of court petition will be filed with the High Court against them, said the notice.
On October 9 in 2017, the High Court released the full verdict of a writ petition filed over the death of four-year-old Jihad, asking the authorities concerned of the government to pay Tk 20 lakh as compensation to his parents.
As per the direction, Bangladesh Railway, and Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence will pay Tk 10 lakh each within 90 days.
In the judgment, the HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo said, “This order of awarding compensation will not impede/affect other liabilities, if there be any, of the respondents concern or each officials resulting in from the death of the said victim [Jihad].”
Following a writ petition moved by Barrister Md Abdul Halim on behalf of rights organization –Children’s Charity Bangladesh Foundation — the HC on February 18, 2016 had delivered its short judgment saying that the government would have to compensate the family of Jihad, but the court had not specifically said any amount of the compensation.
Jihad fell into an unprotected well shaft while playing with other children in Shahjahanpur Railway Colony on December 26, 2014.
