The High Court on Sunday has declined to give bail to Sohel Rana, the owner of collapsed Rana Plaza that took the lives of some 1,134 people, in a case filed under the Building Construction Rules.
An HC bench comprising of Justice Nizamul Huq and Justice Jahangir Hossain passed the order rejecting the bail petition, defence lawyer Najmul Huda told the Dhaka Tribune.
The nine-storey Rana Plaza collapsed on April 24 last year, claiming at least 1,135 lives and injuring nearly 2,500 people, most of them garment factory workers.
On charge of violating the Building Construction Code, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on the day filed a case against the building owner Sohel Rana with Savar police station.
The Savar police also filed another case on the following day against six people on charge of causing deaths due to negligence.
