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Sircar's Tk 40 Lakh Medical Bill

JS probe body asks for all documents

Staff Correspondent
A parliamentary probe body yesterday asked the Jatiya Sangsad Secretariat to come up with all necessary documents on Tk 40 lakh medical bills drawn by immediate past speaker Jami ruddin Sircar ignoring’ financial rules.
Assigned with the task to probe alleged rampant corruption occurred at the JS Secretariat in the last seven years, the all-parry probe body at its first meeting also decided to investigate the alleged corruption against the immediate past deputy speaker and the chief whip.
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Widespread allegations of financial anomalies were also raised against former deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and former chief whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain.
Around Tk 1 crore was allegedly misused in implementation of projects for trimming grass and farming ducks. The former deputy speaker supervised implementation of these projects.
On the other hand, allegation of taking daily commodities worth a significant amount of money from the JS Secretariat cafeteria was raised against thefonner chief whip.
"The committee will investigate allegations of corruption, misuse of power against the former deputy speaker and the former chief whip and corrupt officials of the Parliament Secretariat,' committee chief l azle Rabbi Mia
told reporters after the meeting atJSBhaban.
The parliamentary' body also asked the JS Secretariat and Public Works Department to come up with all necessary documents on recruitment of officials and employees, purchase. tenders, grass trimming and duck farming projects.
"We have looked into a few documents and papers of medical bills of the immediate past speaker for lus treatment inSingapore,' Rabbisaid.
The committee chief however did not make any comment whether Sircar took the medical bills legally. Sircar had drawn medical bills twice amounting Tk28lakhandTkl21akh.
Available documents on the medical bill of Tk 28 lakh show that Sircar took the money giving undertaking as the JS Secretariat had refused to give the money I he JS Secretariat had observed that the speaker
could not allocate the money for his own medical treatment.
Financial rules experts, former advisers to the caretaker government Dr Akbar Ali Khan and M Hafizuddin Khan had earlier told The Daily Star Sircar could not allocate the money to meet expenditure of his own medical treatment.
But he did it ignoring the basic principle of the financial rules, they argued, adding the immediate past speaker must return the amount.
"We asked the officials concerned to come up with necessary papers and documents of different activities including recruitment of offi-cials, purchase, tender on or before the next meeting," Rabbi said. The committee will sit again on April 12.
Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, who is a member of the committee, however did not attend the
meeting as his party. BNR alleged the probe body was formed to malign image of Sircar, who is contesting the April 2 by-elections from Bogra-6 constituency.
Speaker Abdul Hamid on March 19 constituted the all party parliamentary body, first time in the parliamentary history of Bangladesh, to probe widespread allegation of financial anomalies, misuse of power and waste of public money against the immediate past speaker.
The committee was also assigned to investigate any other allegation of corruption occurred in the JS Secretariat during the seven year tenure of Sircar.
The apeaker also said the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) would soon send a special team to audit the expenditures of the Parliament Secretariat since 1972.