Mayor, 4 councillors land in jail for corruption
Mayor Abdul Baten and councillors Islam Uddin, Abdus Samad Mohaladar, Nargis Akhter, and Mahabub Hossain Babul of Pabna's Bera municipality were sent to jail yesterday in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Public Prosecutor advocate Abdur Rahim said the accused appeared before the Court of Special Judge Abdul Kuddus at noon, seeking bail in the case for misappropriating government fund of Tk 2.41 crore.
The court rejected the bail prayers and sent the mayor and the councilors to jail.
The same court on May 3 and May 4 sent seven other accused, including a Water Development Board engineer, to prison, rejecting their bail prayers in the case.
Mohammad Jalal Uddin, deputy assistant director of ACC in Pabna, filed three separate cases with Bera Police Station on August 27, 2015, accusing 16 people, including Mayor Abdul Baten, of misappropriating Tk Tk 2.41 crore realised by leasing out a haat in the municipality area.
According to the case statement, the municipality authorities leased Karamza Haat in the area of the Water Development Board (WDB) and embezzled the money instead of depositing it to the government fund.
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