Sherpur (Bogura) Correspondent :

Dabir Uddin, chairman of Garidaha union, has been accused of embezzling money in the name of giving a job to the village police under Sherpur upazila of Bogura district. He embezzled Tk 1.5 lakh from Maryam Begum, wife of village police officer Zahurul Islam, who was working in the same union.

The woman gave the money but nothing worked. Time is wasted just by showing various excuses.  At one stage, she can understand the deception of that cycle of the chairman.  The victim lodged a written complaint with the Upazila Nirbahi Officer on Sunday (January 25) at noon. She also held a press conference at Sherpur Press Club and prayed for justice.

According to the complaint, Zahurul Islam, a resident of Chandijan village in Garidaha union of the upazila.He worked as a village police officer in the same union.  In that respect, Chairman Dabir Uddin showed him various temptations.

In particular, he promised his wife Maryam Begum a job in the parishad. However, he was asked to give money for the job.  In the meantime, recruitment notice was issued for the post of nanny in Garidaha union. According to him, Maryam Begum was appointed as a nanny among several job candidates.  But later it was proved to be fake.  Then the chairman took the money and offered him a job in the village police.

The victim, Maryam Begum, complained that in June 2019, a fake appointment was first made to the post of nanny.  But in a short time the matter was caught.  However, Chairman Dabir Uddin promised to give a job to the village police in Garidaha union.

For this he himself took Tk150000.In order to reduce the age through forgery of birth certificate and national identity card.Entrepreneur  Mizanur Rahman was given Tk 20,000 and office assistant Sekendar Ali was given Tk 10,000 in the office of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer to manage government offices.

After that, even though it has been a long time,she is being given a job without any job. Even if she wants to know about the matter she does not  get any good reply and also not return the money,she said. As a result she has lost her way in this situation.

Asked about the matter, Dabir Uddin, chairman of the Garidaha union of the accused upazila, denied the allegations against him, saying he did not take any money for the job.  Besides, the woman has been making these allegations for some time.  But could not prove any.  Meanwhile, it was not possible to know the statement of the entrepreneur Mizanur Rahman as his phone was switched off.

And Sekendar Ali, office assistant of the Upazila Nirbahi Officer’s Office, dismissed these allegations as completely false and baseless.

Asked about this, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Liakat Ali Sheikh admitted that he had received the complaint and said that the complaint would be seriously investigated.  He claimed that if found guilty in the investigation, action would be taken according to the law.