Chemical trader sued

A Dhaka court yesterday asked the chemical trader, whose warehouse was apparently responsible for the Nimtoli inferno, to appear before it in a case filed against him in connection with running a business without licence.
Mohammad Enayet Hossain, warehouse inspector of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court against Mohammad Ohidullah Mazumder, owner of the chemical warehouse apparently responsible for the June 3 Nimtoli blaze.
After the hearing, Magistrate Mehedi Hasan Talukder recorded the statement of the complainant, took the charge in cognisance and asked the accused to appear before it on July 4.
In the case statement, complainant Enayet Hossain, said Ohidul had been running the chemical business without a license from the authorities concerned for a long time.
The complainant also said Executive Magistrate Mohammad Al Amin, who conducted a mobile court, on June 10 visited the accused person's chemical warehouse on Majed Sardar Road and found that the proprietor of the warehouse had no licence.
But the court failed to arrest the owner of the warehouse as he fled the scene sensing the presence of the mobile court, the complainant said.
The complainant appealed to the court to issue an arrest warrant against the accused.