DCC ledger keeper held while taking bribe
Staff Correspondent
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) ledger keeper (Tax) on charges of receiving bribe from his office at Mirpur yesterday.The arrestee was identified as AKM Humayun Kabir, 41, a ledger keeper at Zone-8, Taxation, DCC. Rab sources said an intelligence team of Rab-4 was waiting inside Humayun's office in disguise at 12:40pm after being tipped-off and arrested him red handed while he was receiving a bribe of Tk 6000 from one Nurul Islam. Nurul Islam went to Humayun's office to pay a holding tax of Tk 6000 but Humayun demanded Tk 6000 more in addition to his holding tax, sources added. Nurul Islam notified Rab about the incident who instructed him to do exactly what Humayun wants him to do. Rab members told The Daily Star quoting Humayun that the bribes are usually distributed among a number of employees.
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