Ad-interim bail to Tazreen\\\'s chair rejected

Cancelling an ad-interim bail granted earlier to the Tazreen Fashions Limited's Chairperson by a Judicial Magistrate Court, the Dhaka District and Sessions Judge sought Thursday explanation from the magistrate whether there was any violation of law, sources said.
"The judicial magistrate was given 15 days' time to reply to the show-cause," Additional Public Prosecutor Md Anwarul Kabir told the FE.
Judge Md Abdul Majid of the Court of Dhaka District and Sessions Judge also "ordered Tazreen Fashions' Chairperson to surrender before the court within 15 days," Mr Kabir, who was present at the court, told the FE.
The orders came following a government petition filed against the February 10 bail order. Public Prosecutor Khandker Abdul Mannan appeared for the government in the court.
During hearing in the government petition, the state counsel said that the 'due process of law' was not followed in granting the bail. So, they sought cancellation of the bail order.
Earlier on February 9, 2014, Tazreen Fashions managing director Delwar Hossain and his wife-cum Tazreen chairperson Mahmuda Akter Mita surrendered before the court 40 days after the police hunt to arrest them following a lower court order.
The lower court on December 31, 2014 issued arrest warrants against them in the case filed over the garment factory's devastating fire that killed at least 112 workers in 2012.
Hours after their surrender, the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Tajul Islam sent them to jail.
On the following day, February 10, 2014, the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Ismail Hossain after hearing their bail petitions granted ad-interim bail to Mrs Mita for one month.
The court, however, upheld the previous day's order of sending her husband-cum Tazreen managing director Delwar Hossain to jail.
Challenging the bail, the government filed a petition, upon which the Court of Dhaka District and Sessions Judge cancelled her bail Thursday and sought explanation from the concerned magistrate over granting bail to him.
The couple, along with 11 others, is facing homicide charges that police pressed on December 22, 2013, one year and eight days after the tragic industrial fire.
In the charge sheet, the accused persons were charged, among others, with death caused by negligence.
Taking the homicide charges into its cognizance, a lower court on December 31, 2013 issued the arrest warrants against Tazreen's six officials, including the MD and chairperson, who were shown fugitive in the charge sheet.
Among the six persons, against whom the arrest warrants were issued, four are on the run. They are: factory manager Abdur Razzak, its quality manager Shahiduzzaman Dulal, production manager Mobarak Hossain Manju and engineer Mahbubul Morshed.
Of the 13 accused persons, only security-in-charge Anisur Rahman is in jail while six others are on bail. They are: manager (admin) Md Dulal Uddin, store-in-charge Hamidul Islam and Md Al Amin, security in-charge Md Al Amin, security guard Md Rana and loader Shamim Mia.
The tragic fire at the factory killed at least 112 workers, most of them are women, and injured many others at the factory in Nishchintapur area in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka on November 24, 2012.