Chargesheet in a vandalising case against Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) mayor and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser, MA Mannan, was submitted to a Gazipur court yesterday.
Officer in-Charge (OC) of Joydebpur police station Khandkar Rezaul Hasan Reza said the chargesheet no 369 had been signed by him on April 15 and was then sent to the office of the Superintendent of Police, who had forwarded it to Gazipur Judges’ court.
On December 27 last year, a case was filed against mayor MA Mannan and 29 other BNP leaders and activists for vandalising vehicles on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway during a hartal centring Khaleda Zia’s Gazipur rally.
The chargesheet of this case was submitted after proper investigation, said the OC.
The OC further added that the court would soon begin hearing the case and if MA Mannan is found guilty he could be stripped of his mayoral post.
According to the local government regulation, if any elected public representative is convicted for any criminal offence or becomes physically incapable or stays absent from three consecutive council meetings, he or she may be suspended on a temporary basis.
MA Mannan, who is currently at Kashimpur jail, was picked up by law enforcers on February 11 from his DOHS Baridhara residence in the capital on another arson case.