Death of Jihad: 3 railway engineers among 4 jailed for 10yrs

-- 4 fined Tk 2 lakh each, in default 2yrs more jail

-- 2 asst engineers acquitted

Four people including three engineers of Bangladesh Railway were sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over the death of three-year-old Jihad who fell into a 600-feet deep shaft in Dhaka’s Shahjahanpur area in 2014.

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The convicts are: Abdus Salam alias Shafiqul Islam, proprietor of SR House; and Jahangir Alom, senior sub-engineer, Jafor Ahmed and Nasiruddin, assistant engineers of Bangladesh Railways.

The court also fined them Tk 2 lakh each, in default of which they will have to suffer two years more in jail.

Two other assistant engineers - Saiful Islam and Dipak Kumar Bhowmik -- were acquitted of the charges as the allegations brought against them were not proved.

Judge Md Aktaruzzaman of the Special Judge Court-5 handed down the verdict in presence of all the convicts at a crowded courtroom.

On December 26, 2014, Jihad died after falling into a 17-inch diameter abandoned shaft, near his house at Bangladesh Railway Colony in Shahjahanpur area while playing with his friends.



His body was pulled out by a band of indomitable volunteers the following day.

On October 4 last year, the same court framed charges against six people including five engineers of Bangladesh Railway. All of them were on bail.