The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has finally included in the charge-sheet Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza in Savar, which collapsed on April 25 in 2013, killing 1,129 people.
He has been included in the list of the accused for constructing the building with faulty design.
The Commission approved on Tuesday the charge-sheet against 18 people including Sohel Rana who was not earlier included in the accused list while the anti-graft body decided to file a case against them.
Different organisations and rights activists blasted the ACC for not including Sohel Rana in the accused list.
The charge sheet was approved at a regular meeting of the Commission, ACC Commissioner M Shahabuddin Choppu told the reporters.
He said the ACC decided to include Sohel Rana in the accused list as the Commission found him guilty later. "We decided to include him as we found him guilty," he said.
Earlier, on June 15 last, the ACC filed a case against 17 persons including the Mayor of Savar Municipality Md Refatullah for allowing construction of the Rana Plaza building with a faulty design.
ACC deputy director SM Mafidul Islam filed the case with the Savar Police Station.
The other accused in the case are: Rana's parents Abdul Khaleque and Marjina Begum, commissioner Haji M Ali Khan (Ward 7, Savar), architect ATM Masud Reza, Engr Sajjad Hossain, former Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Savar Uttam Kumar Roy, executive engineer Rafiqul Islam, former assistant engineer Mahbubur Rahman, former deputy assistant engineer Raqibul Hasan Rasel, former town planner of Savar Farzana Islam, licence inspector Md Abdul Mottalib, former secretaries of the municipality Morzina Khan and Md Abul Bashar, businessmen Md Aminul Islam, Bazlus Samad, and Md Anisur Rahman.
A probe by the ACC found that the nine-storey Rana Plaza was not approved by the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) though its approval was mandatory for constructing such a big building.
At least 1,135 people were killed, mostly readymade garment workers, in the worst collapse at Savar on the outskirts of the capital.
The building collapse is considered to be the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, as well as the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern human history.
