The drive was conducted at the directive of director general and chief of the Enforcement Unit of ACC Munir Chowdhury, on charges of bill forgery, preparing bill in exchange of money and harassment of clients in the city’s Fakirapool area.
The WASA officials are Golam Rabbani, Shah Miran Bhuiyan, and Shafikul Islam.
Deputy Director of ACC Jannat Keya and members of police participated in the drive led by assistant director of ACC Masudur Rahman.
The complaint against inspector Shafikul Islam was that he engaged the consumers offering to decrease their bill readings in exchange for a fee, and Golam Rabbani took care of the technical bits like fiddling with the bill overlooking the meter.
The ACC also received a complaint that Shah Miran Bhuiyan used to threaten the consumers for increasing the bill without any cause if he does not get the demanded money.
A register was opened in the presence of ACC team aiming to manage the complaints and solve the complaints immediately.
ACC also found the information of due bill of many organisation. They mentioned the due bill (Tk 5 crore) of Ad-Din Hospoital and thirty lakh of Bangladesh Police Co-operative Society.
The drive team of the anti corruption body also stressed taking the necessary measures to collect customer’s bills as soon as possible.
Chief of enforcement unit of ACC Munir Chowdhury said “Public suffering is increasing for the corruption at the root level. ACC is pledged to decrease the rate of corruption through continuous monitoring.”