Ex-health minister Mosharraf, BMA top shots sued for graft
Court Correspondent
One of the owners of the land, on which Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Bhaban was built, filed another graft case yesterday against former health and family welfare minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, BMA President MA Hadi, BMA Secretary General AZM Zahid Hossain and 82 others. The judge did not pass any order on the issue. In the complaint, BMA Bhaban owner Nazim Habibuzzaman mentioned that the accused in collusion with others misappropriated Tk 36 crore from the public fund during 2002-04 and Mosharraf had assisted them in doing the crime while he was in charge of the health ministry. Nazim in his complaint said Mosharraf illegally sanctioned Tk 6 crore to the BMA, which was embezzled. The BMA took Tk 30 crore from the government through unfair means in connivance with Mosharraf for the construction of a building on an illegally occupied land. Nazim, also the president of Bangladesh Gonotrantrik Dal, claimed that he legally owns the land on which the BMA Bhaban was constructed. Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday sent the graft case filed earlier against Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) chairman and one of its engineers to the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) for investigation. On February 13, BMA Bhaban's landowner Nazim Habibuzzaman filed the case with the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court against Rajuk Chairman KM Harun Ur Rashid and Engineer Mohammad Muzaffar Uddin for taking Tk 1 crore as bribe from land grabbers. After scrutinising relevant documents, Judge Mohamamd Momin Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court passed the order for the ACC investigation. In his complaint in the case filed on February 13, Habibuzzaman mentioned that a group of miscreants illegally took possession of 66 decimals of land at 15/2 Topkhana Road in 1979 while the complainant along with his family members was abroad. The miscreants built a building on the land without any approval from Rajuk and hung a signboard of BMA there. Following the incident, Rajuk sent a letter to the intruders asking them to show the blueprint of the building. But Rajuk did not take any step for demolishing the BMA Bhaban even though the grabbers failed to show the blueprint, the complainant added. Rajuk, on February 1 this year, decided to conduct a drive to demolish the BMA Bhaban following a letter from the complainant urging them to do so. On February 7, Rajuk conducted a drive demolishing illegal structures from Shapla Chatter in Motijheel to National Press Club in Paltan. However, the Rajuk team left the BMA Bhaban untouched as the chairman and the engineer of Rajuk took Tk 1 crore as bribe from the intruders, Habibuzzaman alleged.
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