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Fake War Hero Certificates of Secretaries

4 revoked, 1 withheld

PARTHA PRATIM BHATTACHARIEE
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has revoked the freedom fighter certificates that four top bureaucrats obtained last year through forgery to get their service period extended.
The ministry also withheld the certificate of another high official for not following proper procedures.
Following probe reports and rec-
ommendations from the AntiCorruption Commission, the ministry took the steps and published a gazette notification in this regard yesterday.
The four - Health Secretary Niaz Uddin Mia, Public Service Commission Secretary AKM Amir Hossain, ex-liberation war affairs secretary KH Masud Siddiqui (now an OSD), and ex-joint secretary to the
ministry Abul Kashem Talukder (now an OSD) - would lose all the benefits they were enjoying with the certificates, sources said.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque told The Daily Star that they would write to the public administration ministry for departmental action against them.
Earlier, the ministry had cancelled
certificates of 182 other public servants on the same grounds.
The certificate of former PMO secretary Molla Waheeduzzaman, now chairman of the Privatisation Commission, was withheld because his application was not submitted to Jatiya Muktijoddha Council, the minister said.
He mentioned that the National Security Intelligence (NSI) gave a positive report on Waheeduzzaman's participation in the Liberation War, 1971.
According to sources, the next course of action on his certificate would be decided later.
Meanwhile, the ministry has decided to cancel the certificates of 2,367 members of a special guerrilla force formed by the NAP-Communist Party-Chhatra Union combine in
1971.
Their certificates were not issued in a proper way and many of them even did not apply forthose, sources said.
But, following a list provided by the left organisations, a gazette notification on August 4 last year published their names. The then Liberation War affairs secretary Masud Siddiqui was also named in the gazette.
The ministry would issue a circular asking them to apply afresh.
In another development, deadline for applications seeking freedom fighters' certificates has been extended to October 30.
The minister said they had already started scrutiny of 1.02 lakh applications. They had also sent directives to local administration and Muktijoddha Sangsad units asking them to identify fake freedom fighters.