Two power officials get five yrs in jail

BARISHAL, July 20 (UNB): A court in Barishal has sentenced two engineers of Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) to five years in jail for amassing wealth worth Tk 13.6 million through illegal means.

Barisal's Divisional Special Court Judge Mehdi Al Masud handed down the sentence to the convicts -- Lakshmi Narayan Bhuya and Hanif Hossain Gazi of PGCB's Khulna Circle -- on Tuesday.

The court also imposed a whopping fine of Tk 3.5 million on each of them, but acquitted Anwar Hossain, a former security inspector of PGCB, for lack of evidence.

On August 20, 2017, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case against the three for embezzling money from a project.

On January 21, 2018, the investigation officer in the case submitted a charge sheet against them.