<div style="text-align: justify; "><b><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The 11th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, the worst-ever tragedy in the country’s multi-billion-dollar ready-made garment (RMG) industry, is being observed on Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Different right bodies, worker organisations and left-leaning political parties, including Rana Plaza Survivors’ Association, usually arrange various programmes every year, remembering the victims of the tragedy, reports UNB.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On April 24 in 2013, Rana Plaza, an illegally-constructed building in Savar which housed five garment factories, came down crashing, killing 1,138 people and injuring over 2,000 others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, police filed the murder case accusing Sohel Rana who has been in jail since his arrest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Trial in the murder case filed over Rana Plaza collapse began officially on January 31, 2022 by recording statements of the witnesses.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On July 18, 2016, Dhaka District and Session Court Judge SM Kuddus Zaman framed charges against the accused and passed an order to begin the trial.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it got barred as most of the accused appealed to the higher court challenging legality of the order.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On January 31, 2022, after clearing the appeals, District and Sessions Court Judge AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan recorded the statement of plaintiff, then Sub-Inspector of Savar police station Wali Ashraf.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/fas</div>