A Dhaka court has set May 26 for the hearing of charge framing in a case filed over the Rana Plaza collapse against 18 people, including Rana Plaza owner and prime accused Sohel Rana.
Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman set the fresh date on Tuesday when the defence lawyers in the case plead for more time.
Earlier on April 28, the court accepted the charge sheet against the 18 suspects in the case filed on charges of building code violation when Rana Plaza was constructed.
The court fixed May 10 then for the hearing on charge framing in the case.
On June 1 last year, Assistant Superintendent of Police Bijoy Krishna Kar of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who is also the case's investigation officer, submitted the charge sheet before the court, along with the charge sheet of another case over the incident.
The two charge sheets were filed against 42 people, including Sohel Rana who was a suspect in both the cases.
The other charge sheet was submitted against 41 people, including Rana and his parents Abdul Khaled and Marjina Begum and five factory owners, on killing charges in a case filed under the Penal Code.
Names of 17 accused are common in both the cases.
The eight-storey Rana Plaza, which housed five RMG factories, a shopping complex and a branch of Brac Bank Ltd, collapsed on April 24, 2013 in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing over 1,100 people – mostly female RMG workers – and injuring over 2,500 more.
Two cases – one for murder and one for building code violation – were filed with Savar police station following the incident, considered to be worst industrial incident in Bangladesh's history.
