The High Court Sunday asked the government to explain why Jihad's family should not be paid Tk30 lakh in compensation.
In response to a writ petition filed by Children’s Charity Bangladesh Foundation, the High Court bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi Mohammad Ejarul Haque Akondo came up with the ruling.
The home secretary, railway secretary, director general of Fire Service and Civil Defence, director general of railway, director of Fire Service And Civil Defense (operation and maintenance), Wasa chairman, administrator of South City Corporation, police commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, deputy commissioner of Motijheel zone of police, and operation in charge of Shahjahanpur police station were asked to respond to the ruling.
The rights organisation submitted the petition on December 28 last year, seeking its directives to the government to give Tk30 lakh as compensation to Jihad’s family.
The HC bench also asked the government to explain in four weeks why the negligence of the government, Wasa, fire service, railway and Dhaka City Corporation in rescuing Jihad should not be declared illegal.
Moreover, the court directed fire service authorities to submit a list of uncared for pipes, wells, tube-wells, sewerage pipe holes, and water tanks across the country by May 15.
Four-year-old Jihad was killed after falling into an unprotected pipe hole, dug by railway authorities at Shahjahanpur in Dhaka on December 26 last year.
