Plea against legality of chairman's bail accepted

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted an appeal filed by the prosecution challenging the legality of granting bail to Tazreen Fashions Chairman Mahmuda Akhter in a case filed over the devastating fire in the garment factory that killed 112 workers.
Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Md Abdul Majid fixed February 27 for hearing on the appeal seeking cancellation of the lower court bail order.

District Public Prosecutor Khondaker Abdul Mannan filed the appeal two days after another Dhaka court granted Mahmuda conditional bail for one month.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Ismail Hossain granted bail to Mahmuda, also wife of Tazreen Managing Director Delwar Hossain, saying that she had to appear before the court every Sunday throughout the bail period.
On November 24, 2012, a fire broke out at Tazreen Fashions at Ashulia claiming 112 lives of garment workers.
On December 22 last year, police pressed murder charges against 13 people, including Delwar and Mahmuda. They are also facing charges of negligence.
On December 31, a Dhaka court issued arrest warrants against Delwar, Mahmuda and four others who were shown fugitives in the case.
The four are the garment unit's manager Abdur Razzak, quality manager Shahiduzzaman Dulal, production manager Mobarak Hossain Monju and engineer Mahbubul Morshed.
The other seven accused are manager (admin) Dulal Uddin, store-in-charges Hamidul Islam and Al Amin, security-in-charges Al Amin and Anisur Rahman, security guard Md Rana and loader Shamim Mia.
Of them, only security-in-charge Anisur is now behind bars.