Staff Correspondent

The High Court yesterday directed S Alam Group, one of the owners of SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, to immediately give Tk 5 lakh to each of the families of the seven victims who were killed after police opened fire during a demonstration by workers on April 17.

In response to two writ petitions, the HC asked the deputy commissioner and the superintendent of police of Chattogram to submit their inquiry reports into the incident to it in 45 days.

S Alam Group has also been ordered to submit a report on what measures it has taken to compensate the families of the deceased and injured and also for their treatment to the HC in 45 days.

The HC directed the authorities concerned of the government and S Alam Group to ensure that any labour or person in that area was not harassed.

The court also issued a rule asking the authorities to explain why a directive should not be given to them to form a judicial inquiry committee to probe the incident.