Court Correspondent :
City’s Chawkbazar Police on Thursday sought a 10-day remand for quizzing two sons of the owner of the Wahed Mansion, the centre of devastating Chawkbazar fire, in a case filed for the death of 70 persons.
Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of Chawkbazar Police Station Md Muradul Islam and Investigation Officer of the case submitted the remand prayer for questioning Md Hasan and Sohel alias Shahid, who are the sons of Haji Abdul Wahed.
The two brothers were sent to the jail on April 2 after they surrendered in a Dhaka court seeking bail in the case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Md Kaisarul Islam fixed April 8 for hearing on the remand prayer in presence of the accused. The court also directed the jail authorities to produce the two accused in the court on the scheduled date.
The inferno that broke out at Chawkbazar of the Old city on February 20 that killed 70 persons and injured many others.
The fire could have been even more devastating had the flames come into contact with the huge stockpiles of chemicals in the basement of Haji Wahed Mansion.
Haji Abdul Wahed, a former Commissioner of Ward-64 of undivided Dhaka City Corporation, constructed the building 18 to 20 years ago, local people said.
Of his two sons, Hasan lives on the third floor of the four-storey building with his family members. Two other tenants also live on this floor, which also accommodates a storeroom of perfume and lotion. Wahed’s other son Sohel’s family lives on the second floor of the building.
Following the incident, Md Asif, son of Md Jummun, filed a case with Chawkbazar Police Station against the two sons of Abdul Wahed on the charge of the deaths of 70 persons, including his father in the fire.
His father Jummun was talking with his friend, owner of Madina Decorator, situated on the ground floor of the Wahed Mansion, when the fire broke out.
