Rana Plaza Case ACC spares Rana

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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) cleared a proposal for filing a case against 17 people on charge of constructing Rana Plaza building with a faulty design excluding the main accused Sohel Rana from the case on Thursday.

The Commission on Thursday decided to file a case against 17 people, including the parents of Sohel Rana, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told Prothom Alo.

Rana’s parents — Abdul Khaleque and Late Marjina Begum, commissioner Haji M Ali Khan (Ward 7, Savar), architect ATM Masud Reza, Sajjad Hossain and mayor (Savar) Refat Ullah, among others, will be sued soon.

An ACC team, led by its deputy director Mofidul Islam, stared a probe into the allegation of construction of Rana Plaza with a faulty design and recently submitted its probe report to the commission, Pranab said.

On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-storey commercial building, 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 collapsed is considered to be the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, as well as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history.

Source: Prothom Alo