The probe committee formed by the Home Ministry to investigate the causes of Rana Plaza collapse submitted its 400 page report describing the incident as a ‘culpable homicide’ to the ministry’s senior secretary on Wednesday.
The report includes five causes of the building collapsed incident, seven observations and opinions, 12 long-term-recommendations and three immediate recommendations which needs to be addressed within shortest possible time.
The committee chief and additional secretary of home ministry Mainuddin Khandokar has disclosed the brief of the report to the reporters.
Mainuddin Khandaker said the committee found five reasons for the collapse: using low quality construction materials, use of black money in the illegal construction and approval process, building codes not being followed, establishing garments factory on top of a market complex and the building was loaded with vibrant machineries & the garment workers were forced to enter the hazardous structure.
Terming the incident as a culpable homicide, the committee recommended taking action against the owner & management officials of the buildings and the five factory owners on the ground of section 304 of the Bangladesh penal code.
Those who helped them should be prosecuted under section 304 and section 34, the committee suggested in the report.