The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A police officer was caught red-handed while taking bribe around midnight in Tejgaon Industrial Area by Anticorruption Commission officials, said police.

Tejgaon police Sub-Inspector Zafar Iqbal said the accused, police Sub-Inspector Moinul Ahsan of Cantonment Police Station was produced before court on Friday.

The errant police officer was arrested from the first floor of a restaurant 'Banbhojan' in East Nakahal Para, said Zafar.

"ACC officials arrested Moinul as he was taking Tk 5,000 from Mozammel Haque, an accused in a robbery case."

"Moinul, the investigation officer of the robbery case, took the money from Mozammel assuring him that his name would be dropped from the charge sheet of the robbery case," said Zafar.

ACC Assistant Director Harun-ur Rashid filed a case against Moinul, Zafar added.