Court Correspondent :
Four days after their arrest, four accused got bail on Monday in a case filed over the deaths of five people from the fall of a BRT project’s girder segment in the capital’s Uttara on August 15.
The four are Iftekhar Hossain, Managing Director of IFS CON Bangladesh Limited, and its Head of Operations Ajharul Islam Mithu, Build Trade Engineering Company’s Administrative Officer Ruhul Amin Mridha and its Marketing Manager Tofazzal Hossain Tushar.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shuvra Chakraborty of Dhaka CMM Court granted the bail after their lawyers moved separate bail petitions. In the order, the court said the four were not named in the First Information Report (FIR) and all sections under which the case was filed are bailable.
According to the case documents, the two officials of IFS CON Bangladesh outsourced a crane operator and helper through the Build Trade officials for the project.
Three other accused- IFS CON Engineer Zulfikar Ali Shah, Crane Operator Al Amin Hossain Hridoy, and his helper Rakib Hossain, yesterday confessed to their gross negligence in maintaining safety and operating the crane that was moving the girder segment.
They were produced in the court on completion of their two-day remand.
Another accused, Manjurul Islam, Procurement Officer of Gezhouba Group Company, the Chinese contractor of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, was sent to the jail and no lawyer appeared on his behalf.
On Sunday, two other accused- Four Brothers Securities employees Md Rubel and Afroj Mia made confessional statements admitting negligence. According to case documents, China Gezhouba Group Company appointed the two for traffic management.
A day after the girder tragedy, Afran Mondal Babu, brother of two victims- Fahima Begum and Jharna Begum filed the case with Uttara Paschim Police Station in the capital.
Meanwhile, a preliminary report of the government probe committee exposed negligence on the part of the Chinese Contractor, its safety team and the crane operator.
