Bail prayers of 7 councillors, 3 others turned down again

A district court yesterday rejected bail prayer of 10 people including seven councillors and former chief executive engineer of Dinajpur municipality in a Tk 62.30 lakh embezzlement case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), Dinajpur.
The persons sent to jail are former chief engineer of Dinajpur municipality Borhan Uddin Ahmed, councillors Altaf Hossain, Foysal Habib Sumon, Ziaur Rahman Nawshad, Anwar Hossain, Shahidul Islam, Selim Reza, Rabiul Islam Robi, accountant Motahar Hossain and sub-overseer Kawsaruzzaman.
Court sources said police produced the accused before the District Judge Court of Md Abdus Samad. But the court sent them to jail again rejecting their bail prayer.
Earlier on March 30, the chief judicial magistrate court ordered them to send jail when they appeared before the court to seek bail.
Sheikh Mesbah Uddin, assistant director of Dinajpur ACC, filed the case in 2008 against 26 employees including the then chairman (mayor) of Dinajpur municipality Md Mosaddek Hossain Labu, 13 councillors, five engineers and an accountant on charge of embezzling Tk 62.30 lakh of the municipality fund without implementing 13 proposed projects in 2000-2001 financial year.
On March 12 last year, the district judge court sent five former engineers of Dinajpur municipality to jail rejecting their bail prayer, according to court sources.
The five engineers--Abu Taleb, chief executive engineer of Maulana Bhasani Science and Technology University in Tangail and former executive engineer of Dinajpur municipality, Md Nurul Huda, executive engineer of Kurigram municipality and former deputy executive engineer of Dinajpur municipality, Minarul Islam Khan, deputy executive engineer of Domar in Nilphamari and former assistant deputy executive engineer of Dinajpur municipality, Md Asaduzzaman, former overseer of Dinajpur municipality and deputy assistant engineer of Rangpur municipality, and Rais Uddin Miah, former deputy assistant engineer of Dinajpur municipality--later took bail from the high court.
The then municipality chairman (mayor) Labu had been sent to jail but he got permanent bail from the high court. Nine other accused in the case are also now on bail while one died.