A Dhaka court on Tuesday morning issued arrest warrants against six people of Tazreen Fashions, including its Chairman and Managing
Director (MD), in 2012.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Wasim Sheikh of Dhaka’s Chief Judicial Magistrate Court passed the order. The fugitives are Chairman Mahmuda
Akhter, MD Md Delwar Hossain, Engineer M Hahbub Morshed, Factory Manager Abdur Razzak, Quality Manager Shahiduzzaman Dulal and
Production Manager Mobarak Hossain Monju.
Earlier, on Dec 22, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted charge sheet against 13 officials of Tazreen Fashions
Limited including six fugitives.
The CID Inspector AKM Mohshinuzzaman Khan submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court on Dec 22 and Senior
Judicial Magistrate Wasim Sheikh had fixed December 31 for cognizance hearing.
Other seven accused of the case include Security Suprvisor Hamidul Islam Lavlu, Al-Amin, Anisur Rahman, Store-in-Charge Al-Amin and
Loader Shameem Mia, Security Guard Rana alias Anarul. These seven accused secured bail from the court.
However, Assistant Production Manager Sohel Rana, Cutting Loader Sujan Hawlader and former Chairman late Abdul Quddus’s names were not
included in the Charge sheet.
On November 24, last year, at least 112 people were killed and over 100 injured overnight in the devastating fire of Tazreen Fashions at
Ashulia under Savar Upazila.
The fire broke out at about 7 pm and 10 fire fighter units brought the fire under control at midnight after five-hour long frantic efforts.
– Court Correspondent
