Bangladesh garment factory owners surrender over deadly fire

In this photograph taken on November 25, 2012 a Bangladeshi Army personel walks through rows of burnt sewing machines after a fire in the nine-storey Tazreen Fashion plant in Savar, about 30 kilometres north of Dhaka.-AFP

Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter handed themselves in to the magistrates court almost six weeks after it issued warrants for their arrest over the 2012 blaze that gutted the Tazreen factory.

"The court rejected their bail prayers and sent them to jail," prosecutor Anwarul Kabir told AFP, as more than 100 people protested outside the court to demand the couple's conviction.