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Rail Recruitment Scam

ACC lets Mridha off the hook

Staff Correspondent, ctg
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday submitted charge sheets in two cases filed over corruption in the recruitment of goods assistants and record keepers in the railways.
The name of Yusuf Ali Mridha, suspended general manager of the railway's east zone, was not included in the charge sheets, said ACC Public Prosecutor Mahmudul Haque Mahmud.
The investigation team did not find his involvement in irregularities regarding recruitment of goods assistants and record keepers, he said. Only the names of Golam Kibria, former social welfare official of the railway's east zone, and Sarwar Alam, the railway's record keeper, were mentioned in the charge sheets.
The ACC team had found proof that Kibria doctored the exam papers of candidates appearing for goods assistant and record keeper posts, Mahmud said.
The charge sheets were submitted before the court of Chittagong Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mashiur Rahman. The court fixed August 27 for hearing on the charge framing in two cases.
On February 10, 2013, ACC Assistant Director Sheikh Faiaz Alam filed a case against Mridha and Kibria with Kotwali Police Station in connection with recruitment irregularities in goods assistant posts.
The same year, ACC Assistant Director Mustafizur Rahman filed another case accusing the two and the railway's record keeper Sarwar Alam of recruitment irregularities in record keeper posts.
During the investigation, Mustafizur found no proof of Mridha's involvement in the recruitment process but he found evidence against Kibria and Alam.
Mridha, now in jail, is currently facing a total of 13 cases filed for corruption in recruitment to different posts in the railways. The ACC found his involvement in four cases which are now under trial at a Chittagong court.
Mridha was suspended on April 15, 2012, a week after he was caught with Tk 70 lakh inside the Pilkhana Headquarters of the Border Guard Bangladesh. The money had allegedly been collected from railway job seekers.
The then railways minister Suranjit Sengupta had to resign following allegations that the money was being taken to his Jigatola residence in the capital.
Suranjit has all along refuted the claim.
The cash haul led to the exposure of widespread irregularities in recruitments to different tiers of the railway.