Sunday was fixed for hearing on the writ petition that asked the government to arrest owner of Tazreen garment factory Delwar Hossain to ensure his trial for criminal liabilities.
As the hearing ended and Delwar Hossain walked out of the court room victims’ family members gathered around him. One of them shouted at him: “Give me my sister back.” Delwar answered with a smile: “The case is going on.”
Another aggrieved family member of a victim snapped: “Is this case can give me my daughter back?”
As he was standing in the middle of so many family members of the victims he looked perplexed. Just then some of his well-wishers came over and cordoned him off.
By the time he had to face a volley of questions from those people. He was asked why he was not giving the compensation. In reply Delwar said he was doing whatever he could and he could do nothing beyond that.
One of those present at the court charged Delwar for telling the court that Sumaya, a victim of the factory fire now suffering from cancer, was okay and she was released from hospital.
Delwar then said he knew that Sumaya was all right.
However, a few minutes back two members of the High Court bench asked the petitioners about the present condition of Sumaya. The petitioner said Sumaya was now on morphine and she could not bear the side effect of morphine.
The court asked enquired about her as the petitioners recently submitted a supplementary petition along with the writ petition saying Sumaya was suffering from cancerous tumour in her brain and undergoing treatment at United Hospital in Dhaka at the expense of the petitioners.
The High Court earlier directed the government to provide better treatment to a victim of deadly Tazreen garment factory fire named Sumaya.
The fire at Tazreen Fashions Ltd at Ashulia in Savar on November 24 last year killed at least 111 people and injured many others.
Meanwhile, the court said they were thinking of forming a committee to solve the issue of missing garment workers.
The court then fixed Tuesday for the next hearing. Delwar has to appear again before the HC that day.
Three anthropologists – Naznin Akter Banu, Saydia Gulrukh Kamal and Mahmudul Hasan filed the petitions on April 28.
