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Dhaka D R Ahidul in jail : Panic grips corrupt sub-registrars

Dhaka D R Ahidul in jail : Panic grips corrupt sub-registrars

Special Correspondent

After Dhaka District Registrar Ahidul Islam was sent to jail in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) case, panic has spread among the sub-registrars, district registrars and officials at various levels of the sector.

Specially those who are being investigated or investigated by the ACC, the are now worried . They have acquired wealths worth crores of taka through systemic corruption including change of land category, fraudulent registration of registered land, extorting money from registrars, vendors and dewriters in various crises.

The agency is investigating these corrupt registrars-sub-registrars based on the complaints of the victims and media reports.

ACC filed a chargesheet against Dhaka District Registrar Ahidul Islam a few months ago, despite the long search and investigation in exchange for a huge sum of money. He also tried to send the chargesheet filed back to ACC for re-investigation without taking it into account. But in the end all efforts failed.

On April 30, Ahidul Islam surrendered and asked for bail after the interim bail granted by the High Court expired. On that day there was a hearing regarding the receipt of the chargesheet.

The court denied bail and sent him to prison. Even though he was sent to prison, he remained in prison as a VIP. Received the division. But he became desperate to be released from prison. For this purpose, he invested several crores of rupees to get the favor of the top level persons of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs - there was a rumor.

Meanwhile, the fate of this influential official of the registration sector has caused panic among the corrupt officials. Because, Dhaka District Registrar Ahidul Islam is the President of Bangladesh Register Service Association. If he has to go to jail in the ACC case, what will happen to others! Their days and nights are spent in this fear.

Meanwhile, the commission has decided to strengthen the anti-corruption campaign in order to restore the image and dignity of Hrit. This decision was taken in the commission meeting held in the second week of last month.

For this purpose, ACC head office, departmental office and integrated district offices have been urged to activate the search and investigation documents that have been lying in a state of inconsistency for a long time. The concerned inquiry and investigation officers have been given a new deadline to complete the investigation. Otherwise, it has been decided to take various disciplinary measures against the ACC officials including show cause, departmental investigation. The files of the Law Ministry's registration sector, known as a corruption-prone sector, are also being shuffled under the overall decision to speed up investigations.

According to the source, more than one and a half hundred searches and investigations are going on with the sub-registrar, district registrar, forgeries, document writers of the SEC registration sector. However, the charges against them are different. Among them, Kishoreganj Sadar Sub-Registrar Minti Das, Dhaka Uttara Sub-Registrar Lutfar Rahman Mollah, Dhaka Mohammadpur Sub-Registrar Shaheen Mia, Narayanganj Fatulla Sub-Registrar Sajjad Hossain, Gazipur Sreepur Sub-Registrar Osman Gani Mondal, Kaliakair Sub-Registrar Noor Amin, Chittagong Raujan Sub-Registrar. Abu Taher Mostafa, Narayanganj, Sonar Gaon Sub-Registrar Mojibur Rahman, Sylhet Moulvibazar Sadar Sub-Registrar Yasmin Sikder are being investigated for corruption and acquisition of illegal wealth.

Besides, Joypurhat district registrar Torab Hossain, Cumilla District Registrar Asadul Islam, Thakurgaon District Registrar Md Helaluddin, Sherpur district registrar Noor Newaz, Mymensingh district registrar Pathik Kumar Saha, Chittagong district registrar Mission Chakma, Jessore district registrar Abu Taleb, Jhenaidhar district registrar Sabbir Hossain. Meherpur District registrar Saiful Islam, Gazipur District registrar Sabikun Nahar, Bogura District registrar Rafiqul Islam, Panchagarh district registrar Md Rezaul Karim Bakshi, Narayanganj district registrar Jamilur Rahman are on-going.

In the meantime, Bhumi Adikar Bastobayon Sangstha ( Society for the Enforcement of Land Rights), a human rights organisation which has been working to protect land rights of people has filed an allegations to Secretary, Ministstry of Law and other agencies against Thakurgaon District Registrar Md Helal Uddin. That is under the process of investigation, sources said.

Many of them have hidden the search and investigation documents with the help of a class of corrupt officers and employees of the ACC in exchange of huge amount of money. They are now being activated under the pressure of the commission.

ACC Secretary Khorseda Yasmeen said on Thursday that our stance on corruption is zero-tolerance. The officials concerned have already been urged to complete the pending investigations.

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