Mridha dropped from ACC charge
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today submitted the charge sheet dropping the suspended general manager (east zone) of Bangladesh Railway, Yusuf Ali Mridha, in a case filed for irregularities in recruitment process.
SM Rashidur Reza, assistant director of the country's anti-graft watchdog submitted the charge sheet accusing 32 people to a Chittagong curt this afternoon.
The commission exempted the former BR official in a case filed for irregularities in a recruitment process for the post of assistant loco master.
Meanwhile, the investigator in food inspector (BR) irregularities case Md Kamruzzaman also submitted another charge sheet dropping Mridha. The charge brought against only one person.
The Commission filed six cases against him and two other officials for alleged links with irregularities in the department's recruitment process.
Bangladesh Railway's east zone ran seven advertisements in October and November, 2010 for recruitment of more than 3,200 employees in 25 categories.
The categories are fuel checker, tool keeper, ticket issuer, assistant chemist, assistant loco master and trade apprentice.
Mridha was suspended on April 15, 2012, a week after he was caught with Tk 70 lakh inside the Pilkhana Headquarters of the Border Guard Bangladesh. The money had allegedly been collected from railway job seekers.
The then railway minister Suranjit Sengupta had to resign over the cash haul, following allegations that the money was being taken to his Jigatola residence. Suranjit has all along denied the claim.
The cash haul, which came to be known as railwaygate scandal, later exposed widespread irregularities in recruitments in different tiers of the railway.
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