Three cases were filed on Sunday with a Dhaka court by a victim’s widow over the tragic incident of the building collapse in Savar indicting three persons including Sohel Rana the owner of the building Rana Plaza and two others. Sheuli Akhter widow of New Wave Styles garment factory worker Jahangir Alam who was killed ... Read more
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Rana Plaza owner captured before fleeing to India
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel on Sunday arrested Sohel Rana, the owner of the nine-storey Rana Plaza in Savar, the building which caved in on Wednesday leaving nearly 400 people dead and more than 400 others injured. Sohel Rana was nabbed from a hideout in Ball Field area of Benapole in Jessore. Hours after the arrest, ... Read more
HC directs BB to freeze accounts of owners of Rana plaza RMG units
The High Court (HC) on Sunday directed the Bangladesh Bank (BB) authorities to freeze the bank accounts of the Savar building owner and proprietors of five garment factories housed in Rana Plaza so that they cannot withdraw money from the respective accounts without paying workers salaries. It also directed the Bangladesh Garment Manufactures
Home minister orders arrest of Rana Plaza owner
Owner of the Rana Plaza and those who kept their factories running there on Wednesday, ignoring the restrictions on it, would be arrested on criminal charges, Home Minister Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir has told an inter-ministerial meeting on Thursday evening. Already the home ministry has given the directive to arrest them, the minister informed the ... Read more