The court ordered the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) to probe the matter and submit a report.

ACC has taken up the matter for investigation, ACC sources said.

In the complaint filed on March 27, Selim said, Maj Monjur floated Chowland after winning the 2001 parliamentary election from Sirajganj-6 constituency (Chowhali and some part of Shahzadpur upazilas). It worked for poor people of Chowhali shoal area in Sirajganj district.

Monjur made him its chairman and also appointed some other people in several posts and tried to utilise the staff to grab khas lands in the area, Selim said in the complaint. As he declined to grab lands and be involved in corruption, he was sacked in 2005, Selim said in the complaint, a copy of which was made available to this correspondent.

The complaint said that Monjur, with the help of some of his accomplices including Enayetpur upazila BNP president and local Union Parishad chairman Liakot Ali misappropriated around Tk 1,64,90,000 from different government development projects.

It said 430 bundles relief CI sheet were sold at Tk 14,19,000 and 550 metric tons rice under GR, TR and VGD projects at Tk 82,50,000 at the behest of the former lawmaker, and the entire amount was misappropriated by his men.

Monjur was involved in misappropriation of Tk 50 lakh, meant for distribution among the poor under a disaster management programme, the complaint said.

Mentionably, joint forces recently recovered a huge quantity of CI sheets from Enayetpur cloth market built by Monjur on about 30 acres of alleged grabbed lands.

The law enforcers also filed a case against six persons including Monjur in this connection.

While contacted over cell phone yesterday, the former lawmaker said the case was false.

Selim Reza is accused in a case, filed in 2005 by Shahidul Islam, Managing Director of Chowland and Shahzan Ali of Khaskawlia in Chowhali upazila.

"Selim lodged the case against me to counter that case and to save himself", Monjur said.