A former executive engineer of Pabna Water Development Board (WDB) was sent to jail yesterday after his surrender before a Pabna court in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for misappropriating state fund in 2015.

Judge Mohammad Abdul Kuddus rejected the bail prayer of engineer Shahidul Islam Talukdar after he surrendered before the court yesterday morning and ordered sending him to jail.

Mohammad Jalal Uddin, deputy assistant director of ACC in Pabna, filed the case with Bera Police Station on August 27, 2015 against 16 people.

Bera municipality Mayor Abdul Baten, nine councillors, Shahidul Islam Talukdar, the then executive engineer, and Mahbub Hossain Bablu, leaseholder of Karamza Haat, were made accused in the case.

In 2015, the commission filed three separate cases against the mayor and 20 others for embezzling Tk 6.78 lakh from the state fund.

According to the case statement, Mayor Abdul Baten and his men leased Karamza Haat at C&B Bazar and embezzled the money instead of depositing it to the government fund.

The case statement also says that the accused have been occupying the haat since 2002 and did not even deposit the lease money.