Wife Of Technical Board Chair Arrested

The police have arrested Shehela Parvin, wife of technical education board chairman Ali Akbar Khan, for her alleged engagement with certificate business. The detective branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained her on Saturday afternoon. Following primary interrogation, they showed her arrested in a case filed under the Cyber Security Act (CSA) on allegations of selling certificates. 

According to the DB sources, Shehela Parvin confessed to receiving Tk 300,000 from the director of Gorai Polytechnical Institute in Kushtia, Sanjida Akhtar alias Koli. The money was delivered by AKM Shamsuzzaman, a system analyst engineer at the technical education board who was arrested earlier on charges of printing and selling fake certificates.

However, Shehela claimed during the interrogation that the money was not a bribe, rather it was borrowed.

Harun-or-Rashid, additional commissioner of DMP (DB), told the media that ATM Shamsuzzaman, the prime accused in the case, and his associate Sanjida Akter made confessional statements and it prompted the police to take Shehela Parvin to their custody for interrogation on Saturday afternoon. 

The detectives found proof of transactions between Shehela and Shamsuzzaman. Apart from the trio, Foisal Hossain, a former staff and current computerman at Shamsuzzaman’s certificate printing factory, Sardar Golam Mostafa, principal of Hilful Fuzul technical institute, and Maksudur Rahman, director of Dhaka polytechnic institute at Jatrabari, have been arrested, while some of them are now on remand.