HC orders ACC to investigate corruption allegations against Gazipur acting mayor

Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Tuesday directed the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) to complete inquiring of corruption allegations against Gazipur City Corporation Mayor (acting) Asadur Rahman Kiran, within four months.
The court also issued a rule asking as to why the ACC’s inaction and failure to investigate corruption allegations made against him should not be declared illegal. The ACC has been asked to respond to the rule within two weeks.
A High Court Division bench comprising Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed in this regard.
Nazrul Islam and Zillur Rahman, residents of Gazipur, filed a writ by adding a report published in a national daily on 21 August last year, where various allegations were made against Kiran including corruption, arbitrariness in official activities, irregularities, looting, dual citizenship in Bangladesh and the USA, commission trading, acquiring illegal wealth etc.
The report published in the newspaper said that the aggrieved residents of the city have submitted written complaints against Kiran to various departments of the government, including the Prime Minister’s Office.