Cases against Ex-DU VC
Judgement on Aug 22
Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed August 22 for delivering the judgement in two corruption cases against former vice-chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Emajuddin Ahmed and former director of Welfare and Research Institute (WRI) Hafijul Islam.Judge Rezaul Karim Khan of the Special Court for Dhaka Division set the date after a hearing on arguments by the defence and the prosecution. In the case filed with Ramna Police Station, it was alleged that Emajuddin, during his stint as VC, asked the WRI director to enrol 15 students in Master's degree course under 1992-93 session although 14 of them could not pass in the admission test and the other did not even take part in the test. Ratul Khrishna Halder, inspector of the Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAC), filed the case against Emajuddin and Hafijul on September 19, 1997. The investigation officer pressed charges against them on November 30, 1998. In the second case, it was alleged that Emajuddin, when he was the VC of DU, visited Montreal, Canada, and Colombo, Sri Lanka, to attend conferences in 1995 and the expenses were borne by the two countries but he received Tk 18,216 as pocket allowance from the university fund after he returned home. The BAC filed the case against Emajuddin on September 19, 1997.
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