Rana Plaza collapse report submission deferred

Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court yesterday (Wednesday) asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to either submit probe reports or explain the situation to the court with the case docket (CD) in two cases filed in connection with Rana Plaza building collapse last year.Senior Judicial Magistrate Kazi Shahidul Islam of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Dhakafixed September 18 to submit the reports. Bijoy Krishna Kar, an officer of CID and also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, could not submit the reports on Wednesday. In the last 16 months, the date for submission of the probe reports were deferred eight times.Rajuk filed one of the two cases against the building owner, Sohel Rana, for structural faults of Rana Plaza building and for violating the National Building Code.Savar Police Station filed the other case against Rana, his father Abdul Khalek, and the owners of the five garments housed in the nine-story building for the loss of lives.Sheulli Akter, wife of Jahangir Alam, whose body was recovered on April 24,filed another case against Rana.On April 24 last year, the nine-story building collapsed at Savar near Dhaka that claimed 1137 lives and made 2,238 others injured. Besides, many workers are traceless since the catastrophe.