A Dhaka court has remanded two people in the case filed over the fatal fire at the high-rise ‘FR Tower’ at the capital’s Banani.
Police have been granted seven days to grill SMHI Faruque, the owner of the land, and Tasvir Ul Islam, a BNP leader and one of the owners of the multi-storey building.
On Sunday (Mar 31), the Detective Branch produced them before the court hours after their arrests and sought 10 days of custody for the suspects.
The court remanded them for seven days each before turning down their bail pleas.
Faruque was arrested from Bashundhara residential area around 1:45am on Sunday while Tasvir– one of the owners of the illegally occupied floors in the building – was arrested from his home in Baridhara around 10:45pm on Saturday.
At least 26 people were killed and about 50 were injured in the fire that broke out in Banani's FR Tower on Thursday (Mar 28).
It has since been alleged that the developers were only given permission to construct an 18-storey building but added five more floors to take the structure to 23 floors.
According to the fire department, the building also lacked adequate fire safety measures.