Staff Correspondent:
A Divisional Special Judge Court of Chattogram has sentenced a Tax Officer of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) to four and a half years imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2017.Ali Akbar, Deputy Taxation Officer, revenue circle-2, of the CCC, Bahaddarhat Office, was awarded the punishment for taking bribe from a caretaker of a residential building to settle down the holding tax of the building and changed the name of its owner.The Divisional Special Judge Munshi Abdul Mozid delivered the judgment and fined him Tk 70,000, in default, he will have to serve another nine months jail for the same.According to the case, the convicted people was arrested red-handed by the ACC officials while taking Tk 20,000 as bribe from Md Jamal Uddin, caretaker of a building for settling the holding tax issue and change the name of the owner of the building, at CCC revenue collector office circle-2 of Bahaddarhat Kanchabazar office on February, 7 in 2017. H M Aktururzaman, former deputy assistant director of the ACC’s integrated district office of Chattogram, filed a case with Chandgaon thana against the convict on that day.The charge sheet of the case was submitted before the court on 30 October in 2017 while the court framed charges against him on January 11 in 2018.The court pronounced the judgment after examining 10 prosecution witnesses in absence of the convicted person.

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