Criminal Court on Thursday, sentenced two expatriate workers to jail and fined three people over the death of a young girl who was struck by a falling cement bag from a construction site managed by W Construction.
The people indicted in the incident that took place in December 2018 are W Construction's Managing Director Moosa Hassan, Senior Site Supervisor Adam Shafeeq, and four Indian nationals.
Moosa Hassan and Adam Shafeeq are charged with negligent homicide, over failing to take the necessary steps in hoisting cement bags with a lifting sling. The charge carries a minimum sentence of one year, seven months and six days in jail as per the Penal Code. While Shafeeq was found innocent, Criminal Court ordered an MVR 115,200 fine.
Indian national Rajjav Ali, who operated the winch, was found guilty for reckless homicide. The PG Office stated that he had deliberately operated the winch despite not being tasked to do so. He received a six-year jail term.
In addition, Muthumani Ramchandran was sentenced to three-years, two months and 12 days of imprisonment, found guilty as an accomplice to Rajjav Ali's reckless homicide.
The two remaining expatriate workers were found guilty of negligent homicide. However, the Criminal Court, upon request by the defendants' lawyer Hussain Shameem, converted the jail term into an MVR 7200 fine.
The victim, Rawshan Jian, was the elder of two daughters born to a family of Bangladeshi doctors working in Maldives. She was struck by the cement bag on December 16, 2018, and succumbed to her injuries the day after while in intensive care.
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