Rana Plaza collapse: Prosecution fails to produce witness
The trial in the case filed over building code violation in the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse has hit a snag as the prosecution failed to produce its witness on the first day of the hearing on Tuesday...The court was scheduled on August 23 to hear the deposition of the plaintiff in the case, RAJUK official Helal Uddin, but he did not show up...When the prosecution pleaded for more time, Dhaka’s Senior Judicial Magistrate Afsana rescheduled hearings for October 26...Rana Plaza, a nine-storey commercial building, collapsed in 2013, leaving 1,135 people, mostly garment workers, dead in Savar. About two thousand garment workers, rescued from the debris, suffered severe injuries.