High Court tells Titas to pay 5L to each Narayanganj fire victim initially
Bangladesh desk: The High Court has ordered Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited to initially pay Tk5 lakh compensation to each victim of the Narayanganj mosque fire incident.
According to the order, within seven days, the gas company will pay the compensation to Narayanganj Deputy Commissioner (DC) who will later distribute it among the victims.
The High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Khairul Alam passed the order on Wednesday after hearing a writ on this regard.
Advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker accompanied by the petitioner lawyer Advocate Mar-e-um Khondaker stood for the writ.
The High Court also said that all the parties – Titas Gas, Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC), Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) and Baitus Salah Jame Mosque committee – are responsible for the incident which took place on Friday.
The court will give its decision after the investigation reports of the incident are published but for now it passed the initial compensation order.
However, the state lawyer, Deputy Attorney General Nur-Us Sadik, strongly opposed the order of initial compensation.
He said if the incident happened in any other country, the responsible had to pay the full compensation and necessary action would also be taken against them.
