Ex-Railway official gets 5yrs in jail over graft

A Dhaka court today sentenced five years imprisonment to a former railway official in a case filed over earning wealth illegally and concealing information to the Anti-Corruption Commission on wealth.

Judge Md Aminul Islam of the Special Judge Court-9 passed the order in presence of Yusuf Ali Mridha, the suspended general manager of Bangladesh Railway (eastern zone).

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The court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally earning wealth of around Tk 40.10 lakh and two years for concealing information to the ACC in the case filed against him with Ramna Police Station. 

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He was also fined Tk 15 lakh, in default of which, he will suffer one year more in jail.

On April 9, 2012, border guards arrested Mridha at Pilkhana along with three others in a microbus that was reportedly carrying Tk 70 lakh to former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta's Dhanmondi residence in the capital.

Later, Mridha was suspended following the recovery.

The case was filed after the ACC launched an enquiry and found dissimilarity between his wealth statements submitted to the commission.