Death in Ferries: Govt served legal notice to give Tk 1cr to victim family
A rights organisation has served a legal notice to the government, requesting it to give Tk 1 crore in compensation in three days to each of the families of people who died after falling sick due to the heat on two overcrowded ferries on Padma River in Madaripur on May 12.
Law and Life Foundation sent the legal notice through its lawyers Mohammad Humayun Kabir Pallab and Mohammed Kawsar on May 13, also asking the authorities concerned of the government to conduct an inquiry to find out the people responsible for the death and to bring them under trial.
The legal notice was sent through email and courier to the secretaries to the ministries of shipping and home affairs, chairman of Bangladesh Inland Water Development Authority (BIWTA) and director general of department of shipping, saying that the ferries run under their control.
But, they could not take the right decision about carrying the people and running the ferries, which is a negligence resulting in causing the death of five people from shortage of oxygen, they said in the legal notice.
The lawyers also said in the legal notice that the respondents have violated the constitutional right to life of the five people through their negligence in performing responsibility.
Appropriate legal action will be taken if the respondents don't response to the legal notice in three days, said the notice.
Five people died after they fell sick due to the heat on two overcrowded ferries in Madaripur's Banglabazar on May 12.
Eight others fell ill at the same time, Shibchar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Miraz Hossain told The Daily Star.
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