Court Correspondent :
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Dhaka on Monday granted bail to three engineers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in a case filed about the technical glitch of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s flight to Hungary.
Magistrate Pranab Kumar Hui passed the order after hearing on Monday.
The accused engineers are Biman Bangladesh Airlines Engineering Officer Nazmul Haque, Technical Officer Siddiqur Rahman and Junior Technician Shah Alam. Earlier on May 15, the court summoned three officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to appear before the court.
On December 6 last year, Inspector Mahbub Alam sought their withdrawal from the main case and permission of filing a prosecution case in this regard.
On April 4, Dhaka’s Metropolitan Session’s Judge Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah accepted the petition and acquitted all the 11 accused in the case.
The eight other officials are SM Rokonuzzaman, Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain of Biman’s Engineering and Technical Department, Debesh Chowdhury, Chief Engineer (Production), SA Siddique, Chief Engineer (Quality Assurance) and Billal Hossain, Principal Engineer.
The VVIP flight carrying Hasina made an emergency landing on November 27, 2016 at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan after finding technical glitch in the aircraft carrying the PM.
On December 20 night last year, Wing Commander (Retired) MM Asaduzzaman, Director of Engineering and Material Management of Biman, filed the case against nine employees under the Special Powers Act with Airport Police Station. Two more Biman officials were included later in the case.
