A writ petition has been filed with the High Court seeking 50 lakh taka compensation for families of each victim who died or received injuries in an explosion at a mosque in Narayanganj on Friday (September 4).
Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Taimur Alam Khondker filed the writ petition with the bench of Justice JBM Hasan and Justice Md Khairul Alam on Sunday. Later, the court ordered him to come with the writ on Monday.
The petitioner requested the court to take legal actions against those who were responsible for the incident.
The explosion took place around 8:45pm at Baitus Salat Mosque of Fatullah when the devotees had just finished their Esha prayers on September 5.
One of the air conditioners of the mosque went off and sparked a fire inside the mosque. Later, all the six ACs exploded there, leaving around 40 devotees injured.
Locals accused Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL) of being inactive to solve a gas leakage issue in the mosque building which was going on for quite a long time. They claimed that they occasionally used to smell gas inside the mosque.
Upon initial investigation, fire service authorities believed the incident might have occurred due to gas leakage.
So far, the death toll from Friday's mosque blast climbed to 24.
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