UP chairman held as VGF rice misappro-priated

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested the chairman of Chadpura Union Parishad in  Barishal Sadar upazila on charge of misappropriating 5.20 tonnes of rice allocated for special Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) in 2016.     

The accused, Amanulla Aman was arrested from Chowmatha of the city, said Abul Hasem Kazi, assistant director of ACC's Barishal district office.

A case was filed against him with Bandor Police Station on November 27 in 2018. He had been in hiding since then. He was produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court that sent him to jail.