A court in Bangladesh is set to give its decision on the death of a 4-year-old boy, who fell into an unsealed pipe of an abandoned deep tube-well in the capital.
Published : 26 Feb 2017, 10:04 AM
Verdict in case over Bangladesh child who died after falling into abandoned deep tube-well on Feb 26
On Dec 26, 2014, Jihad fell into a deep tube-well of the Bangladesh Railway at Dhaka’s Shahjahanpur.
Five railway engineers and the contractor, who had set up the well, have been charged of death due to negligence in the case started by the boy's father.
The boy fell through the pipe’s 14-inch opening, which was kept unsealed even after it was abandoned.
Rescuers had called off their search after 23 hours, but the locals refused to give up. They pulled out Jihad soon afterwards but the child was dead by then.
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital said he had died several hours before being taken to the hospital.
Jihad's father filed a case of death due to negligence with the police.
In April 2015, police filed the chargesheet in court, where it pressed charges on Railway Senior Sub-Assistant Engineer Jahangir Alam, who was in charge of the project and Abdus Salam, the contractor who set up the well.
After the plaintiff objected, the court ordered a fresh probe and a second chargesheet, adding four more railway officials, was filed on Mar 31 last year.
They are railway's Kamalapur zone assistant engineers Md Nasir Uddin and Dipak Kumar Bhoumik, Assistant Engineer-2 Md Saiful Islam and Electric Engineer Abu Ahmed Shaki.
On Oct 4, 2016, the trial began after the court indicted the six. On Wednesday, the court concluded the trial after hearing the closing arguments and kept its verdict pending for Sunday.