A Dhaka court has granted the Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC one day to interrogate the chief engineer of the shipping department arrested for taking bribes.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Fahd Bin Amin Chowdhury passed the order in response to a petition filed by ACC Assistant
Director Abdul Wadud on Wednesday. On April 12, the anti-graft body detained SM Nazmul Huq from a restaurant in Segunbagicha while he was taking Tk 500,000 in bribes from a shipping company. ACC lawyer Mohammad Abul Hasan sought the remand while lawyers Golam Mustafa Khan and Moslem Uddin Jasim who moved for Nazmul Huq opposed it. According to the petition, the ACC arrested Nazmul while he was taking Tk 500,000 in bribes from a shipping company, MV Prince of Sohag, with a promise to issue a licence and a no-objection certificate. The commission sought a seven-day remand, but the court granted one day.
On the other hand, lawyers who moved for Nazmul said he was arrested from a hotel. “He is an engineer. He has enough room in his office for taking bribes. Why would he go to a hotel for receiving it?” On Apr 12, the anti-graft body detained Nazmul from a restaurant in Segunbagicha while he was taking the bribes.
On July 18, the ACC arrested AKM Fakhrul Islam, the then chief engineer of the Department of Shipping, on bribery charges.
