A Chittagong court has sent a former senior official of Bangladesh Railway to jail in a case filed over railway recruitment scam for the east zone.
Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal 1 Judge Judge SM Mujibur Rahman passed the order after former senior welfare official (East Zone) Golam Kibria surrendered before it on Wednesday afternoon.
Golam Kibria was an accused in the case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the recruitment scam for assistant chemist post.
ACC Prosecutor Mahmudul Hoque confirmed about the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.
SM Rashidur Reza, assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), lodged the cases on September 13 last year. The charge sheets were submitted before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mashiur Rahman on October 2.
Those were transferred to the court of Chittagong metropolitan senior special judge the same day.
On October 20, the special judge’s court issued arrest warrants against Mridha and the seven others in two other cases related to the scam in recruiting fuel checker and assistant chemist posts.
On October 6, the same court issued arrest warrant against Mridha and four others in another case related to the recruitment of clerks. Sources at the railway said the east zone had issued seven advertisements in October and November, 2010 to fill up 3,419 vacant posts in 38 categories.
The scam came into light after Mridha, Kibria, railway’s Dhaka divisional commandant Enamul Huq and Omar Faruk, sacked assistant personal secretary (APS) of the then railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, were detained by the Border Guard Bangladesh at its headquarters with Tk7m in a microbus on April 9 last year.
It is learnt that the money was collected from the job seekers as bribe. Driver Ali Azam, who took the vehicle into the BGB headquarters, has been remained missing, mysteriously, since the incident.
