20190402 Two Wahed Mansion owners sent to jail over fatal Chawkbazar fire
Bangladesh Apr 02 2019 “Building” “Complex bldg.” “Warehouses”
Dead : dead more than 10 Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Two Wahed Mansion owners sent to jail over fatal Chawkbazar fire
Updated: 2019–04–02
A Dhaka court has sent to jail pending trial the two owners of Wahed Mansion, a building in the centre of investigations into the deadly fire at Churihatta in Chawkbazar.
Md Hasan and ‘Sohel’ alias ‘Sharif’, sons of the building’s founder late Haji Wahed, had secured bail from the High Court.
The duo pleaded for fresh bail but Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Kaisarul Islam on Tuesday rejected their petition and ordered them into jail.
The deadly fire in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar on Feb 20 killed 71 people. The fire started on Wahed Mansion’s second floor used for storing chemicals, not by gas cylinder of any vehicle or restaurant, said the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh or IEB after an investigation.
The first floor of the building was used as warehouses of high pressure deodorant canisters and raw plastic granules while chemicals were stored in the basement of the building.
Of the 71 people who died in the fire, 24 were found on the ground floor of the mansion.
Md Asif, son of 52-year old ‘Jummon’ who died in the fire, started the case at the Chawkbazar Model Police Station on the night of Feb 21, accusing 14 people, including Hasan and Sharif, of culpable homicide.
Hasan is also accused in a general diary filed last week of threatening the owner of the Rajmahal restaurant, which was also damaged in the fire, for releasing a security camera video that helped the investigators spot the origin of the fire.
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