Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday placed seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a seven-day remand each in the case
filed for alleged technical glitch in the plane carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakraborty of the CMM Court passed the order after hearing on the 10 days’ remand plea a Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit inspector, who produced the seven accused to court.
The seven accused persons : Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain, Debesh Chowdhury- Chief Engineer (Production), SA Siddique-Chief Engineer (Quality Assurance) and Billal Hossain- Principal Engineer.
Earlier, the police arrested them two days after the case was lodged. Meanwhile, two fugitives officials of the Biman- engineer Rokonuzzaman and junior technician Siddiqur Rahman surrendered to a Dhaka court on Thursday afternoon and they were sent to the jail rejecting their bail petitions. The authorities lodged the case with Airport Police Station of the capital Tuesday night against nine of their suspended officials.
The Boeing-777, carrying the Prime Minister on her way to Budapest of Hungary on November 27 had to made emergency landing at Turkmenistan’s Ashgabat International Airport sensing low pressure of oil in the engine of the plane.
Three probe committees were formed by the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) and Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry in connection with the incident of November 28. Proves of theses committees found that the VVIP plane made the emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport of Turkmenistan after a loose nut caused leakage of engine oil that lowered the oil pressure of engine No. 1 of the Boeing 777-300ER plane.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Thursday placed seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a seven-day remand each in the case
filed for alleged technical glitch in the plane carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Magistrate Snigdha Rani Chakraborty of the CMM Court passed the order after hearing on the 10 days’ remand plea a Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit inspector, who produced the seven accused to court.
The seven accused persons : Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain, Debesh Chowdhury- Chief Engineer (Production), SA Siddique-Chief Engineer (Quality Assurance) and Billal Hossain- Principal Engineer.
Earlier, the police arrested them two days after the case was lodged. Meanwhile, two fugitives officials of the Biman- engineer Rokonuzzaman and junior technician Siddiqur Rahman surrendered to a Dhaka court on Thursday afternoon and they were sent to the jail rejecting their bail petitions. The authorities lodged the case with Airport Police Station of the capital Tuesday night against nine of their suspended officials.
The Boeing-777, carrying the Prime Minister on her way to Budapest of Hungary on November 27 had to made emergency landing at Turkmenistan’s Ashgabat International Airport sensing low pressure of oil in the engine of the plane.
Three probe committees were formed by the Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) and Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry in connection with the incident of November 28. Proves of theses committees found that the VVIP plane made the emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport of Turkmenistan after a loose nut caused leakage of engine oil that lowered the oil pressure of engine No. 1 of the Boeing 777-300ER plane.
