A Dhaka court yesterday sent to jail four accused in Rana Plaza murder case after they surrendered before it.
Dhaka’s Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Al-Amin passed the order rejecting their bail petitions. The accused are Mozammel Haque, Ataur Rahman, Abdus Salam and Aminul Islam – all associates of building owner Sohel Rana.
Assistant public prosecutor Anwarul Kabir Babul said that the four accused forced the workers to join their work even after cracks had been found in the building a day before the collapse.
At least 1,135 people were killed and several thousand injured when the eight-storey building collapsed on April 24, 2013.
The two charge sheets pressed against 59 people on June 1 were accepted by the court. The cases were filed under the Building Construction Act and the Penal Code.
