Dhaka, May 30 -- A worker on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project has been arrested after a case was filed over the death of a boy who was struck in the head with a rod from the construction site.

Md Hasan was arrested on Monday night, law enforcers said.

The boy has yet to be identified and no family has stepped forward to claim him, said SI Sekendar Ali of the Dhaka Railway Police Station. Assistant Manager Hasib Hassan, an official from the Elevated Expressway project, eventually took on the role of plaintiff in the case. The case accuses Hasan of negligence leading to the child's death.

According to some other workers, Hasan threw down a couple of 4-foot-long rods with the intention of stealing them from the site. One of them stru...