ACC files case against Hasina, 16 others for toll scam

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against 17 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six of her cabinet colleagues, for irregularities in toll collection from Meghna-Gomoti Bridge. Deputy Director of the Public Relations Department of the ACC Md Aktarul Islam said that the anti-graft body today approved a proposal for filling the case against 17 people including Sheikh Hasina. The ACC brought allegations of irregularities in signing agreement for collecting tolls of the bridge and misusing of power that made losses of over Taka 300 crore of the government. The other accused of the case are former ministers Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Khandkar Mosharaf Hossain, Obaidul Quader, Anisul Haque and M A Mannan, former...