The High Court yesterday granted six months interim bail to the chairman and the managing director of New Wave Bottom Limited, one of the garments company that was housed at the Rana Plaza at Savar.
The High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed granted the bail after hearing of two separate pleas in connection with the two cases filed on the Rana Plaza collapse.
The owners who secured bail are New Wave Bottom Limited Chairman Bazlus Samad and Managing Director Mahmudur Rahman.
Deputy Attorney General Khandker Diliruzzaman argued on behalf of the state while lawyer Yusuf Hossain Humayun and SM Rezaul Karim represented the accused.
Khandker Diliruzzaman said they would appeal to the chamber judge of the Appellate Division soon, seeking a stay order on the judgement.
Defence lawyer Rezaul Karim said the main accused of the case Abdul Khalek (also the father of building owner Sohel Rana) had secured bail in both the cases. Since the charges in both the cases were bailable offenses and the bails had already been posted, there would be no bar on getting them out of prison.
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.
