Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the US energy giant, Chevron Bangladesh, to pay Tk 604 crore to officers and workers in Bangladesh as profit sharing in accordance with the labour law.

An HC bench, comprising Justice Tariq-ul Hakim and Justice Iqbal Kabir, came up with the directive, while both the petitioners and defence informed the bench that they have reached a settlement outside the court.

The HC bench, then, directed Chevron to pay dividends to its officers and workers.

Later, the 538 Chevron employees, who had jointly filed a writ petition before the HC, seeking its directive on the matter, withdrew their petition. They said they would not proceed with the petition as they have reached a consensus to settl...