Forcing workers in Rana Plaza 4 ‘accomplices’ of Rana held, remanded

This April 25 photo shows rescuers continue their efforts to search for lives at the collapsed Rana Plaza. The building came crashing down the day before and its floors are seen stacked on top of each other.

Four persons, who allegedly forced garment employees to join work despite development of cracks in the Rana Plaza, were remanded Wednesday, a day after their arrest in Savar.

Abdul Mannan, 37, Md Alamgir Hossain, 30, Mohammad Modhu, 27 and Md Russel Ahmed, 31, were placed on a four-day remand.

Police arrested the four at different places in Savar Tuesday night in connection with the April 24 collapse that claimed 1,131 lives.

The members of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced them before the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Taibul Hassan in Dhaka on Wednesday with a seven-day remand prayer.

The four along with Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza, forced the garments workers to work on the 2nd floor of the nine-storey building despite the cracks developed in its pillars the previous day, Bijoy Krisna Kar, assistant superintendent of police of CID, told the court.

Source: The Daily Star