Dhaka: A court in Dhaka on Tuesday framed charges against six people over the death of minor boy Jihad in Dhaka in 2014.

Jihad, 4, died after falling into an abandoned deep tube-well in Shahjahanpur area of city on 26 December 2014.

Judge Mohammad Akhteruzzaman of Dhaka Special Judge’s Court fixed 18 October for starting the trial of the case after rejecting the discharge petition filed by the six accused, reports UNB.

The six accused are: Shafiqul Islam alias Abdus Salam, contractor of M/S SR House, Jahangir Alam, senior sub assistant engineer (inspector of tube-well division) of Bangladesh Railway (BR), its assistant engineers Nasir Uddin, Zafor Ahmmed Shakir, Dipak Kumar Bhowmik and Saiful Islam.

Earlier on 7 April, police submitted the charge-sheet over the death of Jihad.

The accident took place when the four-year-old fell into an abandoned tube-well at Shahjahanpur Railway Colony on 26 December 2014.