Ex-DIG Mizan, Basir indicted
A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general of police, and Khandaker Enamul Basir, suspended director of Anti-Corruption Commission, in a bribery case.
Mizan and Basir, now in jail, claimed themselves innocent and demanded justice after Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam of Special Judge Court-4 read out the charges to them.
Earlier in the day, the court rejected their petitions filed for clearing them of the charges. The court fixed every Monday from March 23 for recording statements of witnesses.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Senior Special Judge's Court in Dhaka, on February 9, took cognisance of charges against the duo in the case.
On January 17, the ACC pressed charges against Mizan and Basir for their alleged involvement in taking and giving bribe of Tk 40 lakh.
On July 16 of 2019, ACC Director Sheikh Mohammad Fanafilya filed the case with its Dhaka district coordination office-1 under the Money Laundering Prevention Act against the two.
A private television channel earlier aired a report in which DIG Mizan alleged that Basir took Tk 40 lakh bribe from him for clearing him from a graft allegation.
Following the report, the ACC formed a three-member committee, led by ACC Secretary Dilwar Bakth to investigate the matter and asked it to submit a report in this regard. ACC suspended Basir after analysing the report on June 12.
Mizan was withdrawn on January 9, 2018, following allegations of threatening a female news presenter of a private television channel. He reportedly picked up a 25-year-old woman in July 2017 and forcibly married her.
On April 25 of 2018, the anti-graft watchdog summoned Mizan and quizzed him for about seven and a half hours over the allegation.
The ACC on June 24 last year filed another case against four people, including Mizan, for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information.
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