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Our Correspondent, Barisal

Public Health Engineering Department of Barisal lodged a criminal case against 30 contractor firms for realising bills worth about taka 2 core without sinking tube wells during 1996-2001.

Md. Yunus Ali, Executive Engineer of Barisal PHED, lodged this case with Barisal Kotwali model police station on Saturday.

Police and PHED sources said the case was lodged after Syed Yunus alias Tube well Yunus, arrested gang leader of those corrupted contractors, revealed important facts about this crime during interrogation from last Sunday to Thursday under remand of another cheating case.

Earlier departmental actions including suspensions, dismissals were taken against 11 Engineers of PHED in this connection after the matter was reported in media, but mysteriously no legal action was taken against those corrupted contractors.

Yunus was arrested by RAB from Dhaka on October 25 and besides this case also accused in more four cases including three cases for misappropriating 25 core taka loans of Rupali Bank.

Police prayed for more seven days remand against Yunus for interrogation and the magistrate fixed the date for hearing of this prayer on next week.

In the meantime close aides and associates of Yunus started filing case against him to save their own skin.

Abul Ala Moududi, an associate of Tube well Yunus and owner of Messer's Abul Ala Moududi and Munira Mosaic and Sanitary firms of the city, lodged a case on Friday under Sections 420 and 406 of Penal Codes. In that case four including tube well Yunus, Yusuf and Mamun,two of his brothers and Abdus Sattar, the then Executive Engineer of Barisal PHED were accused for defalcation of bills worth Tk.33.17 lakhs against the materials supplied and works done by those firms.