A Dhaka Court on Thursday put Mosaddek, the owner of Mayur-2 launch, on a three-day remand in connection with the launch capsize in the Buriganga River last month.

Police arrested the owner of ‘Mayur-2’ launch from his residence in city’s Sobhanbagh area early Thursday in connection with the launch capsize in the Buriganga River that claimed 34 lives on June 29.   Rezaul Karim Bhuiya, sub-inspector of Sadarghat River Police Station, said a team of police arrested Mosaddek, 55, from his residence around 3 am.   He will be produced before a court with seven-day remand prayer.

A Dhaka court sent Abdus Salam, the staff of ‘Mayur-2’ launch, arrested in connection with the Buriganga launch capsize, on a three-day remand.

State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Tuesday said that if deaths in Buriganga launch capsize is proven as murder, then the case filed over negligence will be considered as a murder one.

The apparently ‘miraculous’ survivor from Sunday’s tragic accident on the Buriganga near Sadarghat was traced down Saturday in a different part of Mitford Hospital from the one he was alleged to have fled on Wednesday.

The death toll from the launch capsize in the Buriganga River climbed to 33 with the recovery of another body from the river near Shyambazar on Tuesday.

Divers on Monday night rescued a man who survived in the water for nearly 13 hours after a launch-capsize incident on Buriganga River in the morning.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed profound sorrow and shock at the loss of lives in Buriganga launch capsize.