Glitch in PM's plane: 10 accused get bail

Staff Correspondent: The court on Monday granted bail to ten officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in a case filed over the technical glitch in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's flight.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaisarul Islam issued bail to chief engineer (Maintenance) Billal Hossain.

Besides, the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Subrata Ghosh issued bail to nine other accused.

The Biman staffers are- SM Rokonuzzaman, Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain and Siddiqur Rahman of Biman's engineering and technical department, Debesh Chowdhury, chief engineer (production), S M Siddique, chief engineer (quality assurance), Billal Hossain and Shah Alam, engineer (technician).

Earlier, another accused Najmul Haq got bail from the High Court.

On December 7, Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Assistant Commissioner and also the investigation officer of the case, Mahbubul Alam, submitted the report to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka.

On 27 November, a Bangladesh Biman flight carrying PM Sheikh Hasina to Budapest had to do an emergency landing at an airport in Turkmenistan due to technical glitch.



risingbd/Dhaka/Dec 11, 2017/Mamun Khan/Nasim