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DHAKA, Jan 23, 2025 (BSS) - The High Court (HC) has ordered the Bangladesh 
Rural Electrification Board (BREB) to give Taka 10 lakh within 30 days as 
emergency financial aid for the treatment of a Satkhira child who lost his 
right hand and leg after getting electrocuted by its uncovered electric line.
 
A High Court division bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Mubina Asaf 
passed the order on January 22, asking officials concerned including the BREB 
chairman to comply with the order. The court gave the order after holding a 
hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.
 
Advocates Muhammad Tarik-Ul Islam and Farid Hasan Mehedi moved the plea 
before the court, while Deputy Attorney General Mahfuz Bin Yousuf stood for 
the state.
 
According to the case documents, BREB took its high-powered but unauthorised 
electricity line above the house of Md Abdur Razzak of village Protapnagar 
under Ashashuni Police Station in Satkhira. His son Rakibuzzaman, who was 
eight years old at the time, got electrocuted on May 9, 2021, after coming in 
contact with the uncovered electricity line.
 
Family members rushed him to the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of the Dhaka 
Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where the doctors had to amputate his right 
hand and right leg.