Court fixes Feb 19 for report over PM's plane glitch

Staff Correspondent: A court in Dhaka ordered Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to submit probe report by February 19 over the technical glitch in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's plane.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Golam Nabi fixed a date on Thursday as DMP’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit Inspector Mahbubul Alam failed to submit the report as requested.

Earlier, Biman Director (engineering and management) MAM Asaduzzaman filed a case under the Special Powers Act with Airport police on Tuesday night, accusing nine of its engineers who had been suspended based on preliminary findings.

The nine are Chief Engineer (production) Debesh Chowdhury, Chief Engineer (quality assurance) SA Siddique and Principal Engineer (maintenance and system control) Billal Hossain; technical staff SM Rokonuzzaman, Samiul Huq, Lutfar Rahman, Milon Chandra Das, technician Siddiqur Rahman and Jakir Hossain.

Accepting the case, the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Golam Nabi asked the Airport police to submit the report by January 12.

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