Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Sunday sent seven officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to jail after being remanded in police custody for eight-day, in a case filed over the glitch in a VVIP flight carrying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Metropolitan Magistrate Amirul Haider Chowdhury passed the order when Inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) M Mahbubul Alam, also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before the court with a prayer for sending them to jail, reports UNB.

The court also rejected the bail petitions of the seven Biman officials.

The seven officials are Biman chief engineer Debesh Chowdhury, chief engineer (quality assurance) SS Siddique, principal engineer (system and maintenance) Billal Hossain, engineers Shamiul Haque, Niron Chandra Bishwas, Lutfar Rahman and Zakir Hossain.

 Earlier, on December 30, a court here placed the seven officials of Biman in an eight-day police custody in the case.

A team of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested them from different areas of the city on December 21.

On December 20, Director (Engineering and Management) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines MM Asaduzzaman filed a case against nine officials of the national flag carrier with Airport Police Station under the Special Powers Act.

On the following day, the DMP headquarters issued an order to transfer the case to the CTTC unit from Airport Police Station.

A Biman flight carrying the Prime Minister had to make an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport in Turkmenistan on her way to Budapest on November 27 following low oil pressure in its engine.

Three probe panels were formed by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) and Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry on November 28 to look into the flight trouble.

A total of nine officials, including three engineers of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, were suspended for their negligence of duty in this connection.