DHAKA, Sept 21, 2025 (BSS)- Former vice chancellor of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Prof Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah today appeared before the court in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
Senior Special Metropolitan Sessions Judge of Dhaka Sabbir Foyez ordered to send him to jail and fixed November 26 for submitting the investigation report to the court on the case as the ACC failed to produce the report today.
ACC Assistant Director Minhaz Bin-Islam on July 18 last filed a case against five people including Prof Kalimullah allegedly for embezzling money from a development project of the university.
The other accused of the case are- former vice chancellor and project director of the university Prof AKM Nurunnabi, former executive engineer and a member of tender evaluation committee Jahangir Alam and two contractors Abdus Salam Bachhu and M M Habibur Rahman.
A team of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Prof Kalimullah from his Mohammadpur residence on August 7 last. Later he was also taken on a five-day police remand in connection with the case on August 27.