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Our Correspondent, Netrakona

The chairman of Madan union parishad under Madan upazila of Netrakona district MA Ahad was awarded imprisonment for five years by district speedy trial Court here recently for misappropriating government allocated CI-sheets.

According to the court sources, the prosecution story, in brief, is that the UP chairman Ahad misappropriated 39 pieces of relief sheets and used these for making roof of his residence at Madan upazila town. Acting on a secret information, a team of joint forces recovered the CI-sheets from the roof of his residence on the day of 24th February in the year of 2007 last and filed a case with Madan police station against him.

The UP chairman Ahad managed to escape from the house sensing the arrival of the joint forces and remained absconding for a long time. Later, he surrendered to the court on 9th July of the current year. The court sent him to the jail custody. Madan thana Police after investigation of the case submitted the charge sheet before the court. Later, the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Netrakona Atuwar Rahman who is also the Judge of the Tribunal Court after examining the witnesses and evidences found the UP chairman M A Ahad guilty and declared the verdict, the sources added.