Trial Against 4 Person including Ex-Chairman of RAJUK Started

The court has framed charges against four people, including former RAJUK chairman Humayun Khadem, in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission-ACC alleging forgery of the design of the FR tower in the capital's Banani. With this, the trial of the case officially started.

On Monday (October 18), Dhaka Divisional Special Judge Syed Kamal Hossain's court rejected the accused's plea for acquittal and ordered the formation of charges.

The case has been fixed for November 15.

The other accused in the case are SMHI Farooq, owner of FR Tower, Liaquat Ali Khan Mukul, head of Rupayan Group and Mohammad Saidur Rahman, former chief engineer of RAJUK.

On June 25, 2019, ACC Deputy Director Abu Bakar Siddique filed a case at the Dhaka Integrated District Office-1 alleging that the FR tower’s 18-storey building was constructed in violation of the Building Construction Rules 1996.

After investigating the case, on October 29 of that year, the same officer filed a chargesheet against the five. Earlier, on March 28, 2019, 27 people were killed in a fire at the FR Tower.