The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) arrested a food official in Dumuria upazila here on Thursday for taking Tk 1 lakh as bribe from a rice mill owner.
A team of ACC conducted a drive and caught red handed Md Ilyas Hossain, Food Officer, from Dumuria Upazila Food godown at around 11:30 am.
ACC sources said MdIlyas Hossain was dilly dallying to pay a bill of Tk 11 lakh to Md Qamruzzaman, owner of Zaman Auto Rice Mill of Atharomile Bazar area under Dumuria upazila.
When Ilyas Hossain demanded a huge amount of bribe for the payment Qamruzzaman informed the matter to the ACC.
In the morning, when Quamruzzaman gave Tk one lakh in an envelope to the food official, the ACC officials, who were waiting outside the godown, stormed in to the office and arrested Ilyas with the money concealed in a drawer. Later, he was taken to the ACC’s district coordination office.