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May
8, 2000
Jessore,
May 7 (UNB) – A court here has sentenced four railway staff, one of
them a station master, to five years in jail for negligence of duty.
The
court also fined the convicts -- station master of Singhia Station
Jahangir Alam, point man Alamgir Hossain, driver and assistant driver
of Parbotipur Rocket Mail -- Tk 1,000 each, in default, to suffer
three months more RI.
According
to prosecution, a Parbotipur-bound mail from Khulna collided with
another train coming from opposite direction due to reluctance of the
accused on Oct 11, 1997, leaving 10 people dead and 50 injured.
After
examining the records and witnesses, the Additional District and
Sessions Judge delivered the judgement on April 30.
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