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Hearing in Tazreen fire case adjourned till May 8
DHAKA, April 07, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today adjourned till May 8 the hearing in the case lodged over the devastating fire that killed 112 workers and injured many others in a garment factory name Tazreen Fashions in 2012.
Dhaka first additional district and session judge Prodip Kumar Roy set the date as no witnesses turned up to testify today, prompting the prosecution to plead for time.
A total of 112 workers were burnt to death and more than 200 got injured in the fire that engulfed the garment factory in Nishchintopur area in Ashulia on November 24, 2012.
Ashulia police station sub-inspector Khairul Islam filed the case for causing loss of lives through negligence the next day.
CID inspector AKM Mohsinuzzaman Khan on December 22, 2013, filed charge sheet against 13 including Tazreen Fashions managing director Mohammad Delwar Hossain and chairman Mahmuda Akhter.
Dhaka district and session judge SM Quddus Zaman on September 3, 2015, framed charges in the case.
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