Staff Reporter :
The Detective Branch of police have filed a case against two staff members of Ministry of Education and the owner of Lakehead Grammar School for the alleged bribery.
Police alleged that they are involved exchanging money as bribe for reopening the English-medium school in Dhaka, according to a case filed by the Detective Branch.
The Education Ministry in November ordered the school to close down after allegations that it was harbouring militancy and inspiring extremism.
DB Sub-Inspector Monirul Islam Mridha started the case with Banani Police Station on Monday night.
Law enforcers arrested the education minister’s personal officer Motaleb Hossain in Mohammadpur’s Basila on Sunday night.
Education ministry staff Nasir Uddin and Lakehead Grammar School owner Khaled Hasan Matin were detained in Gulshan around the same time.
All the three reportedly went missing in Dhaka between January 18 and Jan 20. They are now under detention by the Detective Branch.
Detective Branch Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten said, Motaleb and Nasir were detained on charges of corruption while Khaled was accused of funding militancy.
He said the police found Tk 130,000 in cash with Nasir.
Separate general diaries were filed with the police to report that the three went ‘missing’.
Unidentified people led away Motaleb from his under-construction building in Basila and Khaled from in front of his institution on Saturday, according to the GDs.
Motaleb Hossain, a resident of Jhalakathi, was posted to the education minister’s office two years back.
An Education Ministry official told media that Motaleb and Nasir had been working in favour of the school after getting a ‘large amount of money’ from the institution’s authorities.
“They will be penalised if the charges are found to be true in court. The ministry will take action accordingly,” Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said on Monday.
