Bogra DC finally orders arrest of 4 leaders

6 April 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Bogra

Deputy commissioner (DC) of Bogra has ordered arrest of four leaders of the ruling Awami League's associate bodies as they brought 'corruption' charges against the DC. They alleged that DC Md Iftekharul Islam Khan appointed Shibir leaders and workers as secretaries of different union parishads in Bogra and gave registration to CNG-run three wheelers in exchange for money. Several hundred leaders and workers of Jubo League, Chhatra League and Sramik League chanted slogans in front of Post, Telegraph and Telecommunication Minister Raziuddin Raju at Bogra Circuit House Saturday evening demanding removal of the DC. The DC told local journalists over cellphone that he issued an order to arrest the leaders as they made false allegations against him. A senior official of Bogra police said the DC asked police to arrest Jubo League Bogra district unit General Secretary Sagar Kumar Roy, Chhatra League Bogra district unit President Shubhashis Poddar Liton, Sramik League President Abdul Latif Mondol and General Secretary Shamsuddin Sheikh Helal. But the DC did not make any written compliant against the four or made any specific allegation against them, the police official added. Police sources said a case has already been filed with the court against eight people, including DC Iftekharul Islam, on charge of giving registration to CNG-run three wheelers through corruption. A leader of Jubo League district unit alleged that the DC and a leader of AL district committee arranged gambling in the recently held trade fair and made huge money out of it. He also alleged that the leaders of the ruling party's associate bodies also lodged complainants against the DC with AL central Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif, saying that the DC gave fertiliser licences to BNP-Jamaat men in exchange for money. But the DC did not protest it, he said. A source in Borga AL said AL lawmaker from Bogra-5 constituency Habibur Rahman Habib has requested minister Raziuddin Razu to remove DC Md Iftekharul Islam for his alleged corruption.