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Utd Hospital Fire: Pay Tk 25 lakh each to families of 4 victims
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The Supreme Court yesterday directed the United Hospital to pay Tk 25 lakh each in initial payment to the families of the four patients killed in a fire at its Covid-19 isolation unit on May 27 last year.
The hospital must pay the families within 30 days of receiving the apex court order, or be accused of contempt of court, the hospital s lawyer Mustafizur Rahman Khan told The Daily Star.
A full bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, issued the order after hearing the leave to appeal petition filed by the hospital authorities challenging a High Court order that had asked United to pay Tk 30 lakh to each of the victim s families.
Nawroz also sought two months time for submitting the complete report on this issue.
The bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah fixed May 23 for further hearing on the issue.
Also yesterday, Md Ali Akbar, supreme court registrar general, placed another report to the HC bench through Nawroz saying that a three-member monitoring cell, headed by Ali, has been formed to monitor whether the trials of the cases filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000, are completed in 180 days.
The monitoring cell has been constituted in line with a verdict delivered by the HC on December 5, 2016. The HC directive came in the full text of the verdict, delivered by the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan released on May 12, 2017.
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