The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a criminal case against 11 people including a former director of Rajuk on charge of occupying an abandoned residential plot at Gulshan in the capital.
ACC's deputy director Md Yasir Arafat filed the case being the plaintiff on Monday (February 5).
However, Awami League lawmaker from Khulna-4 constituency and Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF)'s vice-president Abdus Salam Murshedy who has been illegally occupying the house has been excluded from the case.
Sources at the ACC confirmed it.
Charges were brought against the accused under Sections 420/467/468/471/109 along with Section 5 (2) of the Anti-Corruption Act of 1947.
Accused of the case are Rajuk's former chairman Humayun Khadem, Engr M Azizul Huq, former assistant secretary Abdus Sobhan, Rajuk's assistnt director Shah Md Sadrul Alam, former caretaker Md Habib Ullah, former deputy director Md Azharul Islam, former director Abdur Rahman Bhuiyan, member Lt Col (Retd) M Nurul Huq, former branch assistant of the Department of Housing and Publkic Works Md Mahbubul Huq, Mir Mohammad Hasan and Mir Md Nurul Afsar.
Barrister Sumon filed a writ petition to the High Courst seeking directive for investigation alleging that ruling Awami League lawmaker from Khulna-4 constituency and Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF)'s vice-president Abdus Salam Murshedy had been illegally occupying the House No. 29 at Road No. 104 of Gulshan-2 which was declared an abandoned property. The ACC and other concerned were made respondents in the writ petition filed on October 30, 2022. Then the ACC launched inquiry into the allegation on January 30 last year and completed inquiry in July 2023.
The ACC has mentioned in its case that the accused provided the scope of misappropriating the government's property through giving permission to hand over and approval of mutation preparing false documents though the plot at CEN (D) No. 27, Holding No. 29, Road No. 104 at Gulshan residential area to be benefited by themselves and benefiting others through forgery though it was listed as an abandoned property in the gazette published by the Ministry of Housing and Public Works.
