Dhaka: 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.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, 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. The case documents reveal that 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.