Rana Plaza tragedy: Sohel Rana's bail to remain stay: Appellate Division
Court Correspondent
Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana's will remain stay in a case filed over deaths during the collapse of the building in April 2013.
A three-member Appellate Division bench led by senior Justice Ashfaqul Islam passed this order.
The court also directed to dispose rule issued on his bail within two months.
Earlier on October 1, a High Court bench comprising Justice Md Ataur Rahman Khan and Justice KM Hafizul Alam granted six-month interim bail to Sohel Rana. The top court also issued rule on bail.
The next day, the Appellate Division stayed the bail.
At least 1,136 people, mostly garment workers, were killed and over 2,500 others injured after the nine-storey building came crashing down in Savar on April 24, 2013.
Sohel Rana, the owner of the building, is the main accused in the murder case filed over the incident.
On August 29, 2017, Sohel Rana was sentenced to three years' simple imprisonment in a graft case.
On April 6, 2023, the High Court granted bail to owner Sohel in the same case. Later, the state counsel filed a petition challenging the legality of the HC order. Later, on April 9, the Appellate Division stayed the order.
