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Court Correspondent

Charge sheet was yesterday submitted to a Court againt Awami League General Secretary Md Abdul Jalil in a graft case filed for amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income.

Twenty-two persons were made witness in the case while 4 seizure lists were shown and Abdul Jalil was shown as fugitive.

The accused allegedly submitted an account of his property to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and after inquiry it was revealed that Jalil amassed wealth worth Taka 65,29,229 beyond his known sources of income. Later, on December 18 last year, Md Enamul Haque, Deputy Assistant Director of ACC filed the case with Ramna Thana of the city. He completed inquiry and submitted the charge-sheet Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Mosaddeque Ali Falu, former BNP MP elected from Dhaka 10 Constituency, was sued again yesterday for evading income-tax.

Md Nurul Amin, NBR Deputy Income Tax Commissioner filed the case yesterday with Metropolitan Session Judge Court of Dhaka while the Judge Md Azizul Haque passed order to issue warrant of arrest against Falu and fixed June 2 for return of the warrant order.

In the case, former MP Falu was accused of evading income-tax to the tune of Taka 2 crore 75 lakh 65 thousand 222 on his income of Taka 11,11,65,517 between 1996 and 2006.