Uttara girder accident: Crane operator among 10 people remanded

A court in Dhaka has remanded10 people, including crane operator Md Al Amin Hossain alias Hridoy, on different terms in a case filed over deaths of five people after a  girder of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project fell on their car in Dhaka’s Uttara on August 15.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahammed passed the order on Friday as police produced Hridoy, his helper Rakib, safety engineer Zulfikar before the court and pleaded to place them on 10-day remand.

After hearing the plea, the court placed the three accused on four-day remand each.

The court also placed security guards Rubel, 28, Md Afroj Miah, 50, owner of heavy equipments supplier company IFSCON Bangladesh Limited Md Iftekhar Hossain, 39, its Head of Operations Md Azharul Islam Mithu, 45, crane supplying company Build Trade’s marketing manager Tofazzal Hossain Tusher, 42, admin officers Ruhul AMin Mridha, 33, and Md Monjurul Islam, 29, on two-day remand each.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested them in separate drives from Dhaka, Gazipur, Sirajganj and Bagerhat on August 17.

On August 15, five people were killed as a girder of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project fell from a crane on their car in Dhaka’s Uttara.