Rana Plaza murder case charge sheet accepted

A Dhaka court has accepted the charge sheet in the murder case filed over the Rana Plaza collapse incident in Savar which killed 1,134 people.

The court also issued an arrest warrant against twenty-four absconder convicted in the case.

Dhaka’s Senior Judicial Magistrate Md. Al-Amin accepted the charge sheet on Monday.

Building owner Sohel Rana, his father Abdul Khalek, Savar municipality chief executive officer Uttam Kumar Roy, and former Savar municipality mayor Refat Ullah, have been named in the charge sheet among many others.

On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapse killed 1,134 people. Five cases were previously filed immediately after the incident.