The High Court today handed over top-ranking police officer Mizanur Rahman to the Shahbagh Police Station in connection with a corruption case. The HC ordered the police to send him to jail.
The HC bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice SM Kuddus Zaman passed the order of arrest after Mizanur Rahman appeared before it for bail.
The bench rejected his bail petition.
Justice Obaidul Hassan commented that Mizanur Rahman has completely destroyed the image of the police department by his activities. It has been seen on the televisions that he confessed to giving bribe to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) officials. Mizanur came to the spotlight last year for “forcibly marrying and torturing” a woman, has amassed Tk 3.28 crore illegally over a period of 20 years, finds an investigation.
The deputy inspector general (DIG) of police made the money by taking bribes and committing corruption, according to the probe conducted by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Between 1998 and 2018, Mizan earned Tk 4.63 crore, but only Tk 1.35 crore of it came from legal sources.
After finishing the probe, ACC recorded a case against DIG Mizan on June 24.
The Daily Star has got a copy of the case statement.
DIG Mizan came under scanner in January last year when he was accused of forcibly marrying and torturing a woman. Later, he was withdrawn from his post at Dhaka Metropolitan Police, and ACC opened an investigation into him in May last year.
INQUIRY INTO BRIBING
Meanwhile, the ACC investigation had stumbled after DIG Mizan raised an allegation of giving Tk 40 lakh as bribe to ACC deputy director and former inquiry officer Khandaker Enamul Basir. He had reportedly promised to free Mizan from the allegations.
After that, ACC suspended Basir and formed a fresh three-member committee to do the inquiry. The committee submitted the report recently, and ACC approved the filing of a case against Mizan on Sunday.
The commission also formed another committee to investigate the allegation of DIG Mizan bribing ACC official Basir.
As a part of the probe, the commission summoned Mizan and Basir for interrogation on July 1. ACC also asked senior reporter of ATN News Imran Hossain Sumon to appear before it on June 26. The television channel first aired a report where Mizan brought the allegation of bribing Basir.
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