PM’s flight glitch: 2 Biman staff on fresh remand
A Dhaka court today placed two engineers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on a five-day fresh remand each in connection with a case filed over the technical glitch of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s flight on November 27 last year.
Metropolitan Magistrate Nurunnahar Yasmeen passed the order after Mahbub Alam, an inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit and also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced them before the court with a 10-day fresh remand prayer.
They are Shah Alam, engineer (technician) and Najmul Haq, engineer (officer). They were produced before the court today on completion of their seven-day remand.
Earlier on January 9, they were arrested, according to the court sources. They were not FIR-named accused.
In today’s forwarding report, the IO said that he gathered vital clues about the PM's plane glitch. Moreover, they were present during the time of checking the flight before departure. So they need to be remanded again to gather more information about the incident.
Earlier, seven Biman officials were arrested and two surrendered. All of them are now in jail after they were quizzed in remand for 15 and 14 days respectively.
All the officials were suspended after their arrest in connection the case filed against them with Airport police Station.
On November 27, a VVIP flight to Budapest with the prime minister made an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan after a loose nut caused an oil leak and subsequent oil pressure loss in engine-1 of the Boeing 777-300ER, according to the Biman probe.
Comments