A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Mohammad Ali Khan, a ward councillor of Savar municipality, on a three-day remand in connection with a murder case filed over the collapse of Rana Plaza on April 24.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Toybul Hasan passed the order rejecting a bail petition submitted by Khan’s counsel Moshiur Rahman.
Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Bijay Krishna Khar, assistant superintendent of police from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), produced them before the court with five days’ remand plea.
In the plea, the IO said Khan is a relative of Sohel Rana, the owner of Rana Plaza. He cooperated to build the building illegally.
On June 26, CID arrested Mohammad Ali Khan form Savar.
Meanwhile, the same court on Thursday rejected bail petition of owners of three garment factories, housed in the Rana Plaza, and an assistant engineer of Savar municipality in two cases filed over the building collapse.
Defence counsel Moazzam Hossen Khan filed the bail petition for his clients.
The accused are-- Anisur Rahman, chairman of Eathertec, Bazlus Samad Adnan, chairman of New Wave Apparels, and Mahmudur Rahman Tapash, managing director of New Wave Bottoms Limited and Alam Miah, an assistant engineer of Savar municipality.
Wali Ashraf Khan, a sub-inspector of Savar police station, had filed the murder case on April 25 while Md Helal Uddin, a Rajuk official, filed another case under the Building Construction Act-1952 on the same day.
