DHAKA, Oct 30, 2025(BSS) - The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) today submitted charge sheet against two engineers of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and a contractor for irregularities in constructing Dhalpur Sweeper Colony.

ACC Director General Md Akhter Hossain disclosed the information to the journalists in its regular media briefing at the commission’s headquarters here.

The charge-sheeted accused are-former executive engineer of DSCC Zone-1 Mesbahul Karim, its former sub-assistant engineer Md Mujibur Rahman and owner and managing director of Nazma Construction Limited Md Harunur Rashid.

According to the ACC, the then deputy director (now retired) Abdus Sattar Sarkar on June 20 in 2016 filed a case against three engineers of the corporation and the contractor under section 5(2) of the Corruption Prevention Act-1947 and section 409/109 of Bangladesh Penal Code. 

Monir Miah, an assistant director of the ACC headquarters later investigated the case and prepared the charge sheet against three engineers and the contractor but before submitting the charge sheet former deputy assistant engineer of the DSCC Md Abdus Salam died.

The ACC during its investigation found that the accused persons in connivance with each other prepared the structural design and estimated the cost of the buildings before completion of soil test based on false technical analysis. 

They also completed the construction work of the colony without proper design and using low quality materials. 

The accused persons showed expenses of Taka over 3.18 crore for the construction of three buildings but the expert team from the BUET after field inspection and necessary tests gave their opinion that the buildings were constructed with low quality materials and it were very risky. 

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) later instructed the city corporation to demolish those buildings.

The accused persons in collaboration with each other misappropriated government money and suffered losses through their negligence, corruption and irregularities.