7 Biman staff sent to jail
A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail petitions of seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and sent them to jail in connection with a technical glitch of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's flight on November 27.
Metropolitan Magistrate Amirul Haider Chowdhury gave the order after they were produced before the court on completion of their eight-day remand in the second phase.
The seven staff are Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain of Biman's engineering and technical department, chief engineer (production) Debesh Chowdhury, SA Siddique, chief engineer (quality assurance) and principal engineer Billal Hossain.
Earlier on December 22, they were placed on another seven-day remand each in the case.
The same day, the two other suspended Biman officials -- engineer Rokonuzzaman and junior technician Siddiqur Rahman -- were also sent to jail after they surrendered before another court seeking bail in the case. Later on December 28, they were placed on a seven-day remand.
They are now on another seven-day remand in the second phase.
Nine employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines were made accused in the case filed under the Special Powers Act with Airport Police Station on December 21.
Wing Commander (retd) MM Asaduzzaman, director of engineering and material management of Biman, filed the case.
All the nine Biman employees were suspended and seven of them were arrested hours after the case was filed.
On November 27, a Biman flight carrying the prime minister made an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest in Hungary as engine-1 of the aircraft was losing oil pressure.
After the landing, engineers identified that a loose nut was causing the loss of oil pressure.
The Biman authorities formed a technical probe committee the following day to find out the reason behind the incident. Based on the findings of the probe committee, Biman first suspended six employees and later three more and filed the case against them.
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