ACC case: Two PDB engrs sent to jail

14 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

Two engineers of the Power Development Board (PDB) have been sent to jail in connection with a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). Earlier, on Tuesday afternoon, former PDB executive engineer Abdul Matin Bhuiyan (now under suspension), sub-assistant engineer Abul Kalam Azad and store keeper Abdul Mannan Chowdhury of the PDB's Distribution Division-III, Sylhet appeared before Divisional Special Judge Golam Hossain. The judge rejected the bail prayers of the engineers in the case filed on charge of selling a transformer worth Tk 10 lakh. They were later sent to the jail hajat. The other accused, Abdul Mannan, however, was granted bail by the High Court earlier. ACC assistant director RK Majumder filed the case with Sylhet Kotwali police station on February 10 this year. The ACC official in the case alleged that the PDB officials took a transformer from a workshop in Tongi in the name of placing it in Sylhet city suburb's Kamalbazar area. But they sold it to some other people.