UP chairman sued on graft charge

The chairman and the secretary of Rangabali Union Parishad (UP) under the newly formed Rangabali upazila of the district have been sued on charge of misappropriating Tk 1.52 crore of different development projects.

Md Mostafizur Rahman, a member of the UP, filed a case with a Patuakhali court on Sunday, accusing Chairman Md Nazrul Islam and Secretary Md Zakir Hossain.

Sessions and Special Judge Satendra Nath Ghosh took the case into cognisance and asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to take necessary steps against the accused after proper investigation.

In the case statement, the complainant stated that UP Nazrul Islam and Secretary Zakir Hossain misappropriated Tk 1.52 crore of different development projects in the union from January 2011 to June 2014. But he mentioned the names of only three projects.

He alleged that both chairman and secretary embezzled Tk 10.94 lakh without doing work under Local Government Support Project (LGSP), Tk 6 lakh by selling 30 tonnes of TR rice allocated for renovation of Uttaripara Jame Mosque, and Tk 10 lakh in the name of development of Baherchar Bazar.