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CHARGESHEET-PARTHA-COGNIZANCE
Charge-sheet against suspended DIG Prisons Partha accepted
DHAKA, Aug 31, 2020, (BSS) – A Dhaka court today taken into cognizance the charge-sheet filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in a graft case against suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Prisons Partha Gopal Bonik.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayes accepted the charge-sheet and transferred the case to Dhaka Special Judge Court-10 for holding hearing on charge framing.
Investigation officer (IO) and ACC deputy director Md Salauddin filed the charge-sheet in the case on August 24.The IO made 14 people as prosecution witnesses in the case.
Partha, who was working at Sylhet Central Jail, was shown arrested by the ACC on July 28, 2019, as it recovered Taka 80 lakh from his North Green Road flat.
“He did not declare the money in his income tax file, making us to believe it was amassed illegally,” ACC director Mohammad Yousuf said on that day.
Partha during his arrest, said the car he was using and was being kept at the parking space owned by him, was actually belongs to his friend. Of the money, Partha said, Taka 30 lakh was given to him by his mother-in-law and 50 lakh was earned by him during his years in service.
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