The High Court yesterday directed Sagufta Group to pay Tk 15 lakh in compensation to the family of Habibur Rahman Munna who died after a brick falling from an under-construction building of the firm hit him on the head.
It also asked the real estate company to pay the compensation within a week and submit a report on compliance of its order within 10 days.
Munna, 18, an HSC examinee from Tejgaon College, on July 16 was hit by a brick that fell from the 10th floor of a 15-storey under-construction building of a Sagufta project at Panthapath in the capital. He died on the spot.
An HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the order during the hearing of a suo moto rule earlier issued by it in connection with the tragic incident.
On July 19, the court issued the suo moto rule upon the commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the officers-in-charge of Sher-e Bangla Nagar Police Station and Pallabi Police Station to explain within two weeks why Sagufta Group should not be punished for not taking appropriate safety measures at the construction site.
Khalled Mohammad Jewel Mollah, managing director of Sagufta; Director Walid Mohammad Mollah and police personnel concerned appeared in the court yesterday as summoned earlier.
The trial of the case, filed against Sagufta Group officials and staff following the incident, will continue at the lower court.
Advocate Anisul Huq argued for Sagufta Group, Yusuf Hossain for the police personnel while Deputy Attorney General ABM Altab Hossain represented the government.
Source : The Daily Star
