Tazreen Fashions chairman secures bail

A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to chairman of Tazreen Fashions Mahmuda Akhter Mita on Tk 20,000 bond in a case over the devastating fire in the garment factory that claimed over 100 lives in 2012. Judge of Dhaka district and session Judge Court M Abdul Mazid passed the order after a hearing on the bail petition filed by Mita’s lawyer Golam Gous.Golam Gous said now there is no bar to release Mita from jail as she secured bail in the case. Earlier, on April 3, a court sent Tazreen Fashions chairman Mita to jail after rejecting her bail petition in the case. On March 20, a Dhaka court rejected the bail to the Tazreen Fashions chairman and ordered her to appear before the lower court within 15 days (by April 4). On February 9, a court here sent Managing director and owner of Tazreen Fashions Delwar Hossain and chairman of the company Mahmuda Akther Mita to jail after rejecting their bail petitions. On February 10, Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate M Ismail Hossain granted bail to Mita and she was released from the Dhaka central jail the following day, according to UNB.