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3 staffs of fake NGO held

27 April 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Satkhira

Three staffs of an NGO were arrested yesterday on charges of collecting over Tk 5 lakh by cheating poor women. Sheikh Zillur Rahman, executive director and Gautam Kumar Das and Mita Akhtar, officials of so-called Health Project Kalyan Samity set up an office at Tala upazila and allegedly collected Tk 365 from each woman promising to arrange loans on easy terms. Locals caught them red-handed at Atarai village and handed them over to Tala police yesterday.