Rana Plaza Collapse: Sohel Rana has been Granted Interim Bail

The High Court today granted ad-interim bail to Rana complex owner Sohel Rana for six months in a case filed over deaths during the collapse of the complex in April 2013.

In response to Sohel’s bail petition, the bench of justices Md. Ataur Rahman Khan and KM Hafiz-Ul Alam issued the order.

Sohel and forty-one other people were charged on May 24, 2015, by the Criminal Investigation Department, and on July 18, 2016, the Dhaka District and Sessions Judge’s Court filed charges against them.

When the nine-story building in Savar collapsed on April 24, 2013, at least 1,135 people—mostly textile workers—were murdered and over 2,500 others were injured, raising concerns about Bangladesh’s labor and human rights laws. Shortly after the incident, hours later, Wali Ashraf, the sub-inspector of the Savar Police Station, filed a murder case against Sohel Rana, the former leader of the Jubo League, his father, and numerous other people.