A Dhaka court on Wednesday sent four accused to jail in the cases filed over Rana Plaza collapse in Savar on the outskirts of the capital in April, 2013. Dhaka senior judicial magistrate Md Al-Amin passed the order rejecting their bail petitions after those accused surrendered before the court and sought bails. The four accused are Mozammel Haque, Ataur Rahman, Abdus Salam and Aminul Islam. They were associates of Sohel Rana, the owner of Rana plaza, investigators said. Special public prosecutor Anwarul Kabir Babul said, ‘The four accused had forced the workers to join works into the building even after they found cracks a day before the collapse.’ On June 1, the CID submitted two charge sheets against 59 accused including the building owner, Sohel Rana in the cases. The court accepted a charge sheet against 17 people in a case filed under Building Construction Act while on December 21, the court granted another charge sheet against 41 people in another case filed under penal code. The murder charges have been brought against the 41 accused, building owner, factory owners and elected representatives as they deliberately threw the workers into a deathtrap, the charge sheet reads. At least 1,135 people were killed when the eight-storied building housing five RMG factories, a shopping mall and a bank, crashed down in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital on April 24, 2013.
