bdnews24.com :
A Chittagong court has indicted the railway’s former General Manager (East Zone) Yusuf Ali Mridha and four others in a case over irregularities in appointing staff.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge SM Mojibur Rahman on Wednesday ordered recording of
testimony in the case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The court also issued warrants of arrest against the accused. Apart from Mridha, other accused are Senior Welfare Officer Golam Kibria and Additional Chief Mechanical Engineer Hafizur Rahman, assistant chemist candidates Sultana Begum and Ganesh Chandra Shil. Railway’s Mridha chargesheeted Widespread irregularities and corruption in the railway recruitment came to light when Tk 7 million, reportedly collected from job seekers, was found in the car of former Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta’s Assistant Personal Secretary Omar Faruq Talukder after it was stopped at Border Guard Bangladesh’s Peelkhana headquarters in the wee hours of Apr 9, 2012.
Yusuf Ali Mridha was also in the car. Later, Mridha was suspended and Talukder sacked. The ACC filed the case on Sept 13 that year for irregularities in appointing over 1,000 employees in six different categories in Railway’s East Zone. It had pressed charges against the accused on Aug 18 last year.
