Yet another student sustained injury as a brick from an under-construction structure fell on his head at Muradpur in Chittagong yesterday.
The injured was identified as Usha-e-Marma, 20, son of Aung Shui Marma of Rangamati. He is a fourth-semester student of Chittagong Technical College.
On July 6, Habibur Rahman Munna, an HSC examinee from Tejgaon College, died of a similar incident at a roadside construction site of Sagufta Group on Panthapath in the capital. The brick fell on him from 10th floor.
He was returning home on foot after attending his ailing mother at Shamarita Hospital in Panthapath area.
In a suo moto order, a High Court bench yesterday summoned the chairman and managing director of Sagufta Group in connection with Munna's death.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore yesterday directed the chairman and the managing director of the group to appear before the court on July 26 at 10:30am to explain their conducts about the incident, especially the safety measures they took and if there is any negligence in their part regarding the accident.
The bench also asked the company to stop the construction work at the site at once and to take adequate safety measures.
The HC order came following a report published in The Daily Star with the headline "Student dies as brick falls from high-rise" on July 17 and an editorial in the newspaper published yesterday under the headline "A brick falls, a youth dies".
Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain placed the copies of the newspaper for necessary order.
The court also issued a rule upon the commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station and Sagufta Group to explain within two weeks why the company should not be punished for not taking appropriate safety measures at the construction site.
It also asked the real estate company to explain why it should not be directed to compensate the family of Munna.
Syed Ziauzzaman, OC of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, said they recorded a case under section 304(A) on the day of the accident against the chairman of Sagufta Group and the officials and employees of Sagufta De Khan project bringing the charge of killing someone out of negligence by authorities concerned.
OC Syed, who is also the investigation officer in the case, said they arrested six workers from the spot and sent them to jail through a Dhaka court. They are now trying to find out other people responsible for the accident.
Meanwhile, Usha-e Marma, the injured in Chittagong, was rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital by his classmates and locals around 12:45pm.
In protest of the incident, students of Chittagong Technical College blockaded Muradpur road which triggered gridlock in the area for almost an hour.
OC Md Ismail Hossain of Panchlaish Police Station told The Daily Star that on information they went to the spot and brought the situation under control.
"We have called owner of the construction site Md Jesi and he apologised and pledged to bear all the expenses for Usha's treatment," the OC said, adding that the victim was out of danger and no case was filed in this connection.
Source : The Daily Star
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