Railway staff jailed for graft
A court on Thursday sentenced a railway staff to one year imprisonment in a corruption case against him.
The convict, Md Kabir Ahmed, was field officer of Estate Department at Bangladesh Railway, West Zone.
Special Judge Amulla Kumar Sarker of Pabna special judge court sentenced him one year imprisonment and fined Tk 9,290.
Md Mosharaf Hossain, assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Pabna, filed the case on May, 12, 2011, claiming that Kabir had misappropriated Tk 44,430 by giving lease railway land violating rules.
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