Railway engineer held while ‘taking bribe’

Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested an engineer of Bangladesh Railway (Kulaura Section) when he was allegedly taking bribe.

Acting on information, a five-member team of ACC arrested Mohammad Erfaunur Rahman, senior assistant engineer of the railway, from the stationmaster’s room at Kulaura Railway Station at 8:00pm last night, our Moulvibazar correspondent reports quoting Deputy Director Moloy Shaha of ACC Habiganj office.

Erfanur was caught red-handed while accepting Tk 10,000 from Abul Hosen, a railway staff (wayman), Moloy said.

He was handed over to the Kulaura Railway Police Station yesterday, said Abdul Malek, officer-in-charge of local police station.  

Erfanur joined the in this post five years back, according to sources.