Sreepur mayor lands in jail over graft charge

A Dhaka court sent two people including Anisur Rahman, mayor of Sreepur Municipality in Gazipur, to jail in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), report BSS.

Dhaka divisional special judges' court passed the order as Rahman surrendered before it and pleaded bail in four cases and former accountant of the municipality Abdul Mannan in two cases.

According to the court officials, Rahman was granted bail in one case out of the four while Mannan was declined bail in both the cases.

ACC filed the cases against the duo for allegedly misappropriating money of the municipality between 2010 and 2013.