The High Court (HC) on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to complete the investigation into corruption allegations against Gazipur City Corporation’s former mayor Jahangir Alam within six months.

An HC bench of Justice Md Nazul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order during the hearing of a writ petition.

Advocates ZI Khan Panna and Ekramul Hoque Tutul stood for the writ petitioner, Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan represented the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Attorney General AM Amin Uddin and Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik stood for the state at the hearing.

Md Abdur Rahim, a resident of Paschim Bhirulia Sarkar Bari under the GCC, moved the HC with a writ petition to dispose of the investigation into corruption allegations against Jahangir on Tuesday.

Apart from this, the court wanted to know why directives won’t be given to quickly complete the investigation into the corruption and take proper initiatives as per the rule. The investigators were asked to submit a probe report before the court.

ACC chairman, Local Government secretary, additional secretary, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, GCC incumbent acting mayor and former mayor Jahangir were respondents to the rule.

In a recent newspaper report, it was said that the former mayor Jahangir and his cohorts embezzled Tk 12.43 crore from a project on garbage drainage for the fiscal years 2018-2019 to 2020-2021.

Besides, allegations of corruption involving a huge amount of money were brought against the former mayor, who was sacked from the post of general secretary of Gazipur city unit of Awami League following his derogatory remarks on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 2021. 

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