Eminent citizens have called to prosecute Toba Group Managing Director Delowar Hossain on charges of securing bail by holding 1600 workers hostage in the Tazreen fire tragedy case.
“We think it is a threat to the independent judicial system in our country,” said 16 eminent citizens, including Syed Abul Maksud, Sultana Kamal, Khushi Kabir and Anu Muhammad, in a joint statement yesterday.
Delowar, also an owner of Tazreen Fashions Ltd, has been detained in connection with the devastating factory fire in which 112 people were killed in November 2012.
On July 28, a High Court bench granted two months’ bail to him, reportedly on the controversial grounds that 1600 workers of five factories under Tuba Group cannot be paid their salary for May and
June unless he is out on bail in order to enable the release of the funds from the bank.
As a result of this, they believed that the trial of 112 workers who were killed on November 24, 2012 would be called into question, the eminent citizens said in their joint statement.
Through the statement, they strongly condemned the issue and demanded Delowar be punished for the Tazreen tragedy and for holding the workers hostage.
The statement urges people from all walks of life to voice this demand and also attend a human chain and a protest rally to be held in front of the Supreme Court at 10am today.
