DIG Mizan shown arrested in bribery case
Suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman was shown arrested in a case over bribing an official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Dhaka Senior Special Judge AKM Emrul Kayesh passed the order after accepting a petition filed by the ACC.
On July 16, ACC director Sheikh Mohammad Fanafillah submitted a petition for showing DIG Mizan arrested in the case.
Advocate Ehsanul Haque Samaji stood for DIG Mizan while Advocate Mosharraf Hossain Kajal and Advocate Tapash Kumar Pal represented the ACC and the state respectively.
ACC director Sheikh Mohammad Fanafillah filed a case against suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman and ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basirwith Dhaka-1 coordinated district office under the Anti-Corruption Commission, over Tk 40 lakh bribery scandal on July 16.
A private TV channel reported recently that Mizan gave Tk 40 lakh to Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director KhandakerEnamulBasir to get clean chit in a corruption case.
DIG Mizan was an additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). He was withdrawn on January 9 last year following the allegation of threatening a female news presenter of a private television channel.
He had also reportedly married a woman forcibly and tortured her. Mizan allegedly picked the 25-year-old woman up in July, 2017 and then forcibly married her.
He had also implicated her in a false case whereby she was arrested and remained in jail for three weeks.
The ACC on June 24 filed a case against four people, including DIG Mizanur Rahman, for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information.
According to the case statement, the ACC found that DIG Mizan accumulated wealth worth Tk 3.28 crore while he concealed information of wealth worth Tk 3.7 crore in his wealth statement.
