A Chittagong court sent Bangladesh Railway (BR) east zone former senior Welfare Official Golam Kibria, accused in different cases over the railway recruitment scam, to jail yesterday.
The court of Divisional Special Judge SM Ataur Rahman passed the order when Kibria surrendered before it.
Sources said two corruption cases over the recruitment of an assistant chemist and a fuel checker were filed against Golam Kibria.
Advocate Mahmudul Haque Mahmud, counsel for the Anti-Corruption Commission, told the Dhaka Tribune the former BR official pleaded for bail from the court but the court rejected his request and sent him to jail.
SM Rashidur Reza, ACC assistant director, lodged the cases on September 13 last year while the charge sheets were submitted on October 2, 2013, he said.
On October 20, a Chittagong court issued an arrest warrant against the former GM Yusuf Ali Mridha of BR (East) and seven others in the two cases.
Regarding the recruitment scam, a total of 13 cases were lodged on September, 2012 and February, 2013.
The Border Guard Bangladesh personnel seized Tk70 lakh from the car of the Assistant Personal Secretary Omar Faruk of the then rail minister Suranjit Sengupta on April 9, 2012.
Mridha, Kibria and Railway Nirapatta Bahini Dhaka Divisional Commandant Enamul Haque were in the car.
The driver of the car, Ali Azam, had been missing since he unfolded the incident. The then minister Suranjit resigned following the incident while his APS, Mridha and Enamul, were suspended.
