Rly engineer, contractor sued over Jihad\\\'s death

The tragedy of child Jihad has driven his father, Nasiruddin Fakir, to file a case against the proprietor of a construction company and an engineer of Bangladesh Railway (BR). The child had fallen into a 600 feet deep water pipe in a pump house in Shantinagar Railway Colony in Dhaka on Friday afternoon and died before he could be rescued. The accused in the case are Abdus Salam, owner of the construction company ‘SR House’ responsible for setting the pipe, and Jahangir Alam, BR’s senior sub-assistant engineer. Shahjahanpur Police Sub-Inspector Masud Rana said Nasiruddin Fakir filed the case early Sunday bringing charges of negligence. His four-year-old son fell several hundred feet down the abandoned deep tube-well on Friday afternoon. Br authorities suspended Jahangir Alam, who was in charge of the project, on Friday night while the project contractor firm, SR House, which was installing a new deep tube-well at the site, was blacklisted. After 23 hours of unyielding rescue efforts by several rescue units of Fire Service and Civil Defence department Jihad was brought up by the locals on Saturday afternoon in an apparently unconscious state. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where the doctor declared that the child died several hours ago, according to a news agency.