The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday filed a case against 17 people on charge of constructing Rana Plaza building with a faulty design, which collapsed on April 25 in 2013, killing 1,129 people.
ACC deputy director Mofidul Islam filed the case with Savar Police Station in the afternoon, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
Rana’s parents — Abdul Khaleque and Marjina Begum, Savar Municipality mayor Refat Ullah, former chief executive officer of Savar Municipality Uttam Kumar Roy, its executive engineer Rafiqul Islam, commissioner Haji M Ali Khan (Ward 7, Savar), architect ATM Masud Reza, Engr Sajjad Hossain and former town planner of Savar Municipality Farjana Islam are among the accused in the case.
An ACC team, led by its deputy director Mofidul Islam, launched a probe into the allegation of constructing Rana Plaza with a faulty design and recently submitted its probe report to the commission.
The report says although the local municipality had given an approval in 2007 to construct a five-storey structure, the building owner built an eight-storey commercial complex on wetland, triggering the building collapse.
Sohel Rana, the main accused of the Rana Plaza building collapse incident, was excluded from the report as his father Abdul Khaleque is the owner of the land.
On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza collapsed in Savar on the outskirts of capital Dhaka. A total 1,129 people were killed and some 2,515 injured in the building collapse.
The building collapse is considered to be the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, as well as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history.
Source: UNBConnect
