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DHAKA, Feb 10, 2025 (BSS) - The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC)
today ordered police to produce Yaqub Hossain, owner of a workshop in
Bhairab, Kishoreganj, for not complying with its order to make Taka 30 lakh
fixed deposit in the name of Nayim Hasan Nahid, a child labourer who lost his
right hand while working at his place.
 
A three-member Appellate Division bench headed by Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam
after holding a hearing on a contempt petition brought against the workshop
owner. The apex court asked the superintendent of Kishoreganj police to
produce the accused before it on April 21.
 
Advocate Omar Faruk moved the plea for Nahid, while Additional Attorney
General Aneek Rushd Haque argued for the state.
 
Md Niyamul Hasan Anwar, father of the victim Nayim Hasan Nahid, used to work
at a shoe store but lost his job during the coronavirus outbreak. He had to
give his son Nahid for working in the workshop of Yaqub so that he could earn
a little to help the family.
 
On September 28, 2020, while working at the workshop, Nahid's right hand came
under a running drill machine and his hand had to be amputated from his
elbow.
 
Anwar filed a writ with the High Court in December 2020, for compensation.
The High Court after holding a prime hearing in the matter, issued a rule on
December 27, 2020. Later it gave its verdict, asking the workshop owner to
make two 10-year fixed deposits of Taka 15 lakh each in the name of Nahid and
give him Taka seven thousand a month as his study expenses.
 
Workshop owner Yaqub Hossain filed a leave to appeal petition against the
High Court verdict. The Appellate Division, however, scrapped his plea,
upholding the High Court verdict. But the workshop owner is yet to comply
with the apex court order, making Nahid's father to appeal with the court
again.