The law enforcers and fire fighters who got food poisoning on Tuesday while on ICC Cricket World Cup duty in Dhaka have started to recover, officials said on Wednesday.
The ICC Cricket World Cup management has terminated the food supply order given to Fri Exims and gave it to Trade International and Spice, security chief of the local organising committee Mesbahuddin told New Age.
The Motijheel police officer-in-charge Tofazzal Hossain said they had filed a case under the Special Powers Act against six people.
Of the accused, Fri Exims managing director Saidul Islam and manager Mashiur Rahman, and Al-Rahmania Tehari and Kabab manager Shuvash Chandra Haldar were sent to jail on a court order.
Around 120 uniformed law enforcers who were on duty at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium and Dhaka Sheraton Hotel, fell sick after eating the lunch supplied by Fri Exims Bangladesh Limited.
Of them, 105 patients, mostly suffering from dehydration caused by non-stop vomiting and diarrhoea, were admitted to Central Police Hospital, said CPH superintendent AKM Nizam Uddin.
'We are going to release some of the patients,' he said on Wednesday.
Samples of the victims' stools and vomit were sent to National Institute of Public Health, the hospital sources said.
'No reason for their getting sick has yet been confirmed but we suspect it was food poisoning,' said Chowdhury Mahmuda Akhter Shewly, a physician at the police hospital.
The police, meanwhile, formed a five-member committee led by Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner (administration) to probe into the incident.
A RAB mobile court on Tuesday sentenced Mohammad Kazal, 25, one of the owners of Al-Rahmania Tehari and Kabab, to one year and three months in prison and the cook of the restaurant, Sultan, 55, to three month in jail.
But, the other owner of the restaurant, Babul Miah, has been absconding since the incident, said Tofazzal.
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