Murder case filed against owner, staff

Gulshan police has filed a murder case against the owner and three staff of Six Seasons Hotel over the Friday's air condition blast at the hotel, killing one and injuring two others.

“The case was filed Friday night against four officials including its owner Kazi Ashfaq Shams on the charge of causing death with act of negligence,” Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, told The Daily Star.

In course of investigation, the accused will also be charged with flouting any other laws in the process of erecting such a high-rise commercial building in a core residential neighbourhood, he said.

Mechanic Anwar Hossain, 25, died instantly and his assistants Rana and Kartik suffered 50 percent burns as a chiller of the central air conditioner exploded while they were working with it on the 16th floor of the hotel on Gulshan Road-96 around 3:15pm Friday.

Police arrested two engineers and the hotel's reservation in-charge Al-Amin on that day.

Rajuk Chairman GM Zainul Abedin Bhuiyan said that they needed until today to find out how the commercial hotel was approved in the residential area.