Court orders to send DIG Mizan to jail

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has rejected a bail petition of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Judge of KM Imrul Kayes of Dhaka Senior Special Court rejected the bail petition on Tuesday and ordered to send him to jail.

Earlier on Monday, the High Court rejected another  petition filed by the DIG seeking anticipatory bail in the case and handed him over to Shahbagh Police Station.

ACC Director Manzur Morshed filed the case against Mizan, his wife Sohelia Anar Ratna, nephew sub-inspector Mahmudul Hasan and younger brother Mahabubur Rahman on June 24 last.

They were accused of accumulating wealth worth Tk 302,868,000 illegally.

Media reported recently that Mizan gave Tk 40 lakh to Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Director Khandaker Enamul Basir 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 He was withdrawn on January 9 last year following the allegation of threatening a female news presenter of a private television channel.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.

 

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