Land ministry official sent to jail

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has sent Kutub Uddin Ahmed, an administration official of the Land Ministry, to jail on graft charges.

Deputy Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Mirza Zahidul Alam on Sunday produced him before the court and filed a petition to keep him confined in jail until the investigation ends.

On the contrary, Advocate Shahnaz Akter along with several lawyers moved for Kutub Uddin in the court seeking bail for him.

Meanwhile for ACC, lawyer Abul Hassan opposed the bail petition.

After hearing, the court sent him to jail rejecting the bail petition.

Earlier, ACC arrested him from Segunbagicha of the capital on Sunday noon.

Kutub Uddin allotted a 10-katha plot in Gulshan in the names of some of his relatives, including his father-in-law, using fake documents, according to ACC's Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.

 

risingbd/Dhaka/April 08, 2018/Mamun Khan/A K Azad