The Civil Court has ordered local construction company W Construction to pay MVR 4.5 million in damages for the accidental death of a 7-year-old girl back in 2018.
The girl was killed in December of that year after begin hit by a cement bag that fell from a construction site under the company.
The girl named Raushan Jian had been walking with her mother on the street below the construction site when the falling cement bag struck her down and injured her gravely. The little girl had succumbed to her injuries while under treatment at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
Jian's parents had filed a case at the Civil Court in 2019 asking for MVR 17.4 million in damages for the loss of their daughter.
In its ruling for the case yesterday, the Civil Court said that it cannot order the company to pay the requested settlement amount but said that the company must pay MVR 4.5 million in damages.
The Court also ordered the company to pay the damages in full within two months.
Back in 2019, 6 people were charged over the death of the 7-year-old girl including the Managing Director of the W Construction Adam Shafeeq, and five of his employees.
While Shafeeq was acquitted of the charges, his five employees faced a range of sentences including jail terms.
