The High Court has released the full verdict of a writ petition filed over the death of four-year-old Jihad asking the authorities concerned of the government to pay Tk 20 lakh as compensation to his parents.

As per the direction, Bangladesh Railway and Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence will pay Tk 10 lakh each within 90 days.

In the judgment released on Sunday, the HC bench of Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo said, " This order of awarding compensation will not impede/affect other liabilities, if there be any, of the respondents concern or each officials resulting from the death of the said victim |Jihad|."

Following a writ petition moved by Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Halim on behalf of Children's Charity Bangladesh Foundation, the HC on February 18 last year had delivered its short judgment saying that the government would have to compensate the family of Jihad, but it had not specifically said any amount of the compensation.

Jihad fell into an unprotected well shaft while playing in the capital's Shahjahanpur Railway Colony on December 26, 2014. His body was pulled out by a group of volunteers the following day. On February' 26 this year, a Dhaka court sentenced four people to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over the death of Jihad.

The convicts are Abdus Salam alias Shafiqul Islam, proprietor of SR House, a contractor firm that was implementing a railway project in the area, and Jahangir Alam, senior sub-assistant engineer; and Zafar Ahmed and Nasir Uddin, assistant engineers of Bangladesh Railway.