DHAKA:  Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested owner of the launch, Pinak-6, that capsized near Mawa ghat in Munshiganj district with more than 250 passengers.  

A team of RAB-7 picked up Abu Bakar Siddique from an apartment in Agrabad Housing Society of the Chittagong city around 3:30am on Wednesday.

Chittagong Zone RAB Commander Lieutenant Colonel Mifkah Uddin confirmed the matter to banglanews. 

After detention, he is being brought to RAB headquarters in Mintoo road of the capital, he added. 

Till August 12, the death toll rose to 48, in which 28 bodies were handed over to their family and unidentified 17 were buried while unidentified one is yet to burry.

Earlier on July 4, the launch, Pinak-6, was carrying more than 250 passengers capsized near Mawa Ghat in Lohajang upazila of Munshiganj district.

BIWTA has charged six people including the owner of the passenger ferry, its sureng and helmsman with causing death by negligence after the vessel sank.

BDST: 0928 HRS, AUG 13, 2014/ updated 0954hrs