UNB: A Chattogram court on Wednesday sentenced eight people including the then project director of the contractor firm concerned to seven-year jail each in a case over Chattogram under-construction flyover collapse that killed 13 people in 2012.
Judge of the Chattogram Additional Metropolitan Session Judge court-4 Shariful Islam Bhuiyan handed down the punishment.
The court also fined them Tk 3 lakh each, in default, to suffer six months more jail.The convicts are— Project Director of contractor firm Mir Akhter and Parisa Trade system Gias Uddin, Manjurul Islam, engineer Abdul Jalil, Aminur Rahman, Abdul Hye, Mosharraf Hossain, Shahjahan Ali and Rafiqul Islam.
All of them were former employees of contractor firm Mir Akhter and Parisa Trade System. According to the prosecution, 13 people were killed and 50 others injured when three girders of an under-construction flyover in Bahaddarhat area of Chattagram port city collapsed.