The Anti-Corruption Commission has submitted a charge sheet against five people, including former deputy commissioner of Cox鈥檚 Bazar district, Ruhul Amin, and former District and Sessions Judge Sadiqul Islam Talukdar, in a case filed over allegations of forging case documents.
ACC assistant director Riaz Uddin Ahmed said that he had submitted the charge sheet to Cox鈥檚 Bazar Senior Special Judge Munsi Abdul Majid鈥檚 court on Monday, accusing the five people in the case.
The other accused are lawyer Mostak Ahmed, the court鈥檚 stenographer, Md Zafar Ahmad, and Cox鈥檚 Bazar DC office staff, Swapan Kanti Pal.
AKM Kaisarul Islam Chowdhury, a resident of Maheskhali in the district, filed a case with a Cox鈥檚 Bazar court against 28 people, including deputy commissioner Md Ruhul Amin, on November 19, 2014, on charges of fraud and embezzlement of Tk 23 crore in acquiring land for a power plant in Matarbari of Maheskhali.
Taking the case into cognizance, the court ordered the ACC to conduct an investigation.
The name of the number-1 accused, DC Ruhul Amin, however, was removed, and the number-2 accused, additional deputy commissioner (revenue), Mohammad Zafar Alam, was made the number-1 accused through tempering the case documents.
District and Sessions Judge Sadiqul Islam Talukdar sent the case document to ACC headquarters for investigation after removing the name of DC from the case through tempered documents.
Later, plaintiff Kaisarul Islam Chowdhury filed another lawsuit with the same court against seven people, including DC Ruhul Amin and district judge Sadiqul Islam, on charges of forgery.