The High Court on Tuesday asked the chairman and the managing director of the Sagufta Group of Companies to appear before it on July 26 in connection with the death of a student who was killed when a brick fell on his head, reportedly from the companies' under-construction high-rise on Panthopath.
The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also directed the authorities to explain in two weeks why the company concerned should not be directed to pay adequate compensation to the family of Habibur Rahman Munna, the deceased, a young student who had appeared in this year's HSC examinations from Tejgaon College.
The court also directed the commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the officer-in-charge of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar thana to explain why they should not be directed to prosecute the company for not taking appropriate safety measures during the construction of the residential building on one of the city's busiest roads.
The authorities were also asked to explain in two weeks why the company should not be punished for breaking the law.
The court issued the rule suo moto after deputy attorney general ABM Altaf Hossain drew the court's attention to reports published in various newspapers about the college student who was killed by a falling brick on July 16.
Witnesses and family said that Munna was passing by the 15-storied commercial and residential building, Sagufta De' Khan, being constructed on 77, Panthapath.
But Abu Soheb Khan, marketing director of Sagufta NM Housing Apartment Project, said that the brick might have fallen from any other nearby building. 'Workers at out construction site were fitting tiles on the ninth floor when the incident took place,' he said.
Source : New Age
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