Caught in the act

Officials of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday held a man from Chittagong Sadar Sub Registrar's Office in the city's Court Building area, while he was realising extortion money, posing as an ACC official.

The imposter was identified as Rezaul Islam, 48, from Comilla's Chauddagram area.

“Rezaul is a professional fraudster and used to extort different government and private offices pretending to be an ACC official,” Lutfur Kabir Chandon, deputy director (DD)  of ACC in Chittagong, told The Daily Star.

The DD said posing as an ACC official, Rezaul went to the sub-registrar's office on August 9 and demanded Tk 1 lakh as extortion from the officials. Rezaul was asked to come back later as Sub-Registrar Mostafiz Ahmed was not in office at the time.

Rezaul went back to the office yesterday and demanded money to the sub-registrar. The sub-registrar then informed the police and the ACC without him noticing, and stalled him until the ACC officials arrived at the scene and caught the imposter red-handed.

He was later handed over to police and a case was filed in this connection, DD Lutfur added.