Ctg court rejects ex-OC Pradeep’s bail plea in corruption case
A court in Chattogram today rejected a petition of Pradeep Kumar Das, former officer-in-Charge (OC) of Teknaf Police Station, seeking bail in a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against him and his wife Chumki Karan on charge of amassing wealth illegally.
The court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge Sheikh Ashfaqur Rahman rejected the bail prayer after a hearing, ACC's lawyer Mahmudul Haque told The Daily Star.
Earlier on September 1, a court accepted the charge sheet against the duo in the case after ACC submitted the charge sheet implicating the couple.
ACC's Assistant Director Riaz Uddin filed the case on August 23 last year against Chumki and Pradeep with the commission's Chattogram office-1 over allegations of amassing about Tk 3.95 crore from Pradeep's "illegal income".
The commission had started the inquiry against their illegal wealth in 2018. Chumki and Pradeep were asked to submit a wealth statement on April 9, 2019. She submitted the statement on May 12, 2019.
Earlier on September 20 last year, a court ordered to freeze all movable and immovable properties of Pradeep.
According to the case statement, Chumki showed that her father had given her a six-storey building on August 1, 2013. She has two brothers who did not get any such mentionable property from her father, said the ACC.
Chumki, a housewife, submitted an income tax return for the first time in 2013-14 fiscal year. Since then, she has been saying that business was her profession.
In her income tax returns for 2013-14 and 2014-15 fiscal years, she declared a capital of Tk 11.2 lakh in a commission business and Tk 3.8 lakh as her income.
But no existence of the commission business was found and she could not provide any license or bank statement in this regard.
Chumki also declared earning Tk 1.5 crore from a fisheries business from 2002 to 2013 and leasing five ponds in Boalkhali in 2002 at Tk 16.5 lakh for ten years.
The couple failed to show any document about the source of Tk 16.5 lakh invested in the fisheries business.
"It proves that Chumki, in a bid to conceal Pradeep's illegal money, showed a fake fisheries business. Her income of Tk 1.5 crore from the business is not acceptable," the FIR read.
Analysing the documents, the commission also found that Chumki had amassed immovable property worth Tk 4.22 crore and spent Tk 21.7 lakh as family expenditure.
A Cox's Bazar court framed charges against 15 accused, including suspended inspector Liaqat Ali and former officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station Pradeep Kumar Das, in a case filed over the sensational killing of Major (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan.
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