Satkhira WDB, fishery officials sued for bribery
A case was filed yesterday with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's court here against four government officials including Satkhira Water Development Board (WDB) executive engineer Zulfiqar Ali and Kaliganj upazila fisheries officer Sirajul Islam allegedly for taking bribe and cheating in the name of leasing land.
The other accused are assistant fisheries officer Kaliganj upazila Lutfor Rahman and WDB office assistant Sheikh Nurullah.
Judge Ranu Biki Banu ordered a judicial probe into the case.
Ansar Ali of Tentulia village in Kaliganj upazila filed the case in which he alleged that the accused took Tk 30,000 from him as bribe but did not lease a land.
The complainant said that WDB authorities recently decided to lease 9.40 acres of the land in Tentulia, acquired by it early sixties. A group of landless people in the area formed a co-operative society and submitted prayer to WDB authorities to lease the land, he said.
But the WDB men demanded Tk 50,000 in addition of the lease money.
The landless people gave Nurullah Tk 20,000 in presence of executive engineer Zulfiqar Ali at his office on December 30 last year, the complainant alleged.
Later Nurullah again demanded Tk 20,000 in the name of Kaliganj upazila fisheries officer Sirajul Islam and assistant fisheries officer Lutfor Rahman saying that the lands could not be leased to them without their opinion, he claimed. He then gave Nurullah Tk 10,000.
But the land was leased to others taking more money, Ansar Ali he alleged.
On contact, WDB executive engineer Zulfiqar Ali and Kaliganj upazila fisheries officer Sirajul Islam refuted the allegation.
They had nothing to do as the land was leased as per decision of the lease committee, they said.
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