TAZREEN, RANA PLAZA DISASTER Writs seeking compensations for victims not heard in 3 years

No hearing took place in last three years on two public interest litigation writ petitions seeking High Court Division’s directives to pay the due compensations to the families of apparel workers killed and injured in 2012 Tazreen factory fire and 2013 Rana Plaza collapse.
In April 2013, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust and several human right organizations jointly filed the 1st PIL writ petition seeking due compensation to the families of apparel workers killed and those injured in Rana Plaza collapse on April 24, 2013.
The petitioners also demanded exemplary punishments of the owners of Rana Plaza as well as , five apparel factories housed there.
The 2nd PIL writ petition filed in May 2013, demanded payment of compensations, in accordance with the ILO standards, to apparel workers killed as well as those injured in factory fire at Tazreen Fashions and exemplary punishment of its managing director Md Delwar Hossain.
The 2nd PIL writ petition was jointly filed by Naznin Akter Banu, Saydia Gulrukh Kamal and Mahmudul Hasan Sumon, all anthropologists working for apparel workers’ rights. 
No hearing of either PIL writ petition took place in last three years, lawyers told New Age.
They said that no hearings took place since 2014, though at that time the Chief Justice ordered holding analogous hearings on both the PIL writ petitions.
At least 1,136 apparel workers were killed and over 200 others injured, mostly females, in the collapse of Rana Plaza, housing five apparel factories, on April 24, 2013 Tazreen factory fire killed 113 apparel workers and left scores of others injured, mostly females, on November 24, 2012 . 
The ILO Convention requires payment of compensations to victims of factory disasters calculating the wages with increments, bonuses and other dues they would get during their entire service life had they not been killed or maimed. 
On January 23, 2014, a committee led by General Officer Commanding of the Nine Infantry Division of the Bangladesh Army based at Savar, submitted a report to the HC containing its recommends for payment of compensations to victims of Rana Plaza collapse.
The highest compensation recommended was Tk 14.51 lakh and the lowest-- Tk 1.5 lakh.
The committee was formed following a suo moto order from the HC.  

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