‘Charge sheets of two Rana Plaza cases soon’

Charge sheets of the rest two cases had already been filed

The charge sheets of the two cases out of four over Rana Plaza collapse incident will be filed very soon, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said.

He has made the statement in a press briefing on the occasion of Rana Plaza anniversary at the secretariat on Thursday afternoon.

The minister said: “The charge sheets of the cases over Rana Plaza will be filed soon and the accused will be brought to justice.”

“A total of four cases had been filed over Rana Plaza incident. Of them, charge sheets of two cases had already been filed.”

On April 24 of last year, Rana Plaza, an eight-storied commercial building, collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital.

On May 13, after 21 days of the incident, the search for the dead ended with the death toll of 1,136. Approximately 2,515 injured people were rescued from the building alive.

It is considered to be the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, as well as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history.

According to BGMEA source, at the time of the collapse, five garment factories were in operation in the Rana Plaza building, a total of 2,760 workers were deployed in the five factories of the building while the numbers are 3,900 as per reports by other sources.

Source: Dhaka Tribune