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HC issues rule on bail of engineer Shafikul over Rooppur pillow scam
DHAKA, Aug 17, 2020 (BSS) – The High Court (HC) today issued a rule
asking authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why it shall not
grant bail to deputy assistant engineer Shafiqul Islam, arrested in three
separate graft cases filed over swindling money from the Rooppur Nuclear
Power Plant’s housing project
A High Court virtual bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and
Justice Ahmed Sohel passed the order after holding hearing on a plea seeking
bail for the engineer.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on December 12, 2019, filed the
three cases with its Pabna integrated office for plundering money of the
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s housing project.
The anti-graft body arrested 13 people on that same day including
Shafiqul Islam.
According to media reports, the purchase prices of various items to
furnish the project’s 966 apartments for the Russian engineers and others
were abnormally higher than the market prices.
The reports claimed that each pillow was bought at Taka 5,957, and the
cost of carrying it to an apartment was Taka 760.
The cost of an electric stove was Taka 7,747 while the carrying cost of
it from the ground floor to the top one was Taka 6,650, the reports said,
adding the price of an electric iron was Taka 4,154 while the carrying cost
Taka 2,945.
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