Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneThe lawsuit comes after the city corporation started demolishing shops at Phulbaria marketA case has been filed against former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sayeed Khokon and six others over alleged embezzlement of around Tk35 crore. Md Delwar Hossain, president of businessmen, owners' association of Gulistan’s Phulbaria City Supermarket 2, on Tuesday filed the case at the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court. But they were not allocated the shops, he alleged, and the shops were now being demolished by the city corporation. Meanwhile, Sayeed Khokon alleged that his successor, DSCC Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, had Delwar file the case. “Taposh is making Delu [Delwar] do this filthiness,” Khokon said, according to an SMS his Personal Secretary Habibul Islam Suman sent to journalists, reports Bangla Tribune.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 29, 2020 10:18 UTC