The High Court (HC) summoned on Tuesday the Bangladesh Railway Director General (DG) to appear before it on August 14 and explain the failure to execute its earlier order to provide Tk 2.0 million as compensation to the family of Jihad, reports UNB.
Jihad died after falling into an abandoned deep tube-well in Shahjahanpur area of the city on December 26, 2014.
An HC bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Mohammad Ali passed the order after a hearing a contempt of court rule.
Barrister Abdul Halim stood for the petitioner while Advocate Asadul Haq represented the Bangladesh Railway.
Earlier on March 1 last, the HC issued a contempt of court rule on three government officials for not implementing a court order to provide Tk 2.0 million as compensation to the family of Jihad.
An HC bench of Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice KM Kamrul Kader asked Bangladesh Railway Director General Md Amjad Hosain, Fire Service and Civil Defence DG Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan and its Director Major AKM Shakil Newaj to respond to the rule within two weeks.
A legal notice was served to defendants on January 22 as they did not provide the compensation money to the family.
Later, the contempt petition was filed as the defendants did not reply to the legal notice.
On February 18, 2016, an HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi M Ejarul Haque Akond asked the government to compensate the amount to the family members of four-year-old boy.
Advocate Md Abdul Halim filed a writ petition with the HC on December 28, 2014 seeking its directives for providing Tk 3.0 million as compensation to Jihad's family members.
The body of Jihad was pulled out from the abandoned shaft 23 hours after he had slipped into it.
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