Railway engineer gets bail on surrender

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to an engineer of Bangladesh Railway on surrender in a case filed over the death of four-year-old boy Jihad into a deep well last December.

The court gave the order after Jihad's father Nasir Fakir told it that he had no objection to granting bail to Senior Sub-Assistant Engineer Jahangir Alam who surrendered before it praying for his bail yesterday.

Jihad fell into the abyss, some 40 yards from his house at Railway Colony in the capital, around 4:00pm on December 26 last year while playing with friends. His body was pulled out by a band of indomitable volunteers around 2:45pm the following day, around 15 minutes after the fire service called off a near 23-hour search in the 17-inch diameter abandoned shaft. 

Jahangir was on the run since a case was filed by Jihad's father. Earlier, Abdus Salam, a contractor, who installed the deep well, got bail. 
On April 17, police pressed charges against Salam and Jahangir over the death.