A female staff has confessed to setting fire to a garment factory in Ashulia on Sunday for Tk 20,000 from an official of the unit.
Nineteen-year-old Sumi Akhter made the confessional statement before Senior Judicial Magistrate Wasim Sheikh of Dhaka Monday afternoon.
Sumi admitted that she set fire to Debonair Limited Sunday afternoon after receiving the money from Zakir Hossain, a finishing in-charge of the same factory.
However, reporters present at the court received inaccurate information that the confessional statement was about the fire at Tazreen Fashions Ltd that killed at least 111 people Saturday night.
The fire at Debonair Limited reportedly gutted valuables worth around Tk 10 lakh. But, the incident did not appear prominently in the media and the court reporters were not aware of the fire.
Source: The Daily Star
