Ctg mayor relieved of one more graft case, indicted in another
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
CHITTAGONG, Oct 20 (BSS): A court here today dismissed charges against Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury in one more graft case and indicted him in another.
The Chittagong Divisional Special Judge's Court, during a charge hearing in the Tk 0.21 million (2.14 lakh) earth procuring graft case filed by now defunct Bureau of Anti-corruption (BAC) in 2002, rejected allegations against the mayor and his co-accused Shafi, a CCC enlisted contractor.
The BAC filed case for relieving of the contractor to pay the price of the earth collected from a CCC scheme to develop graveyards in different parts of the city. It was also alleged that the mayor did it for personal financial gain depriving the CCC financially.
On the other hand, the Judge SM Solaiman framed charge against the mayor and another two CCC contractors- Mahmudur Rahman and Azgar Ali Sheikh-in the garbage disposal graft case.
The court fixed October 30 as the next date for recording the depositions of prosecution witnesses.
The proceedings of the case have been lying pending for a long time following a stay order issued by the higher court. The hearing on the case again started as the higher court vacated the stay order recently.
The special court in the order said that mayor did not misappropriate any money or gain financially himself as the earth was used for filling up the low-areas of some educational and service oriented organisations run-by the CCC.
A total of 22 cases were filed against the Chittagong mayor. Of those, the higher courts have so far rejected three while the investigating agencies submitted final reports in four cases.
The Chittagong Divisional Special Judge's Court, during a charge hearing in the Tk 0.21 million (2.14 lakh) earth procuring graft case filed by now defunct Bureau of Anti-corruption (BAC) in 2002, rejected allegations against the mayor and his co-accused Shafi, a CCC enlisted contractor.
The BAC filed case for relieving of the contractor to pay the price of the earth collected from a CCC scheme to develop graveyards in different parts of the city. It was also alleged that the mayor did it for personal financial gain depriving the CCC financially.
On the other hand, the Judge SM Solaiman framed charge against the mayor and another two CCC contractors- Mahmudur Rahman and Azgar Ali Sheikh-in the garbage disposal graft case.
The court fixed October 30 as the next date for recording the depositions of prosecution witnesses.
The proceedings of the case have been lying pending for a long time following a stay order issued by the higher court. The hearing on the case again started as the higher court vacated the stay order recently.
The special court in the order said that mayor did not misappropriate any money or gain financially himself as the earth was used for filling up the low-areas of some educational and service oriented organisations run-by the CCC.
A total of 22 cases were filed against the Chittagong mayor. Of those, the higher courts have so far rejected three while the investigating agencies submitted final reports in four cases.