An Office Assistant of Kushtia Sub-Registrar’s Office lost temporarily his job for his alleged demanding bribe Tk 30, 000 from Deputy Attorney General (DAG) BM Abdur Rafel for preparing deeds of his family land.
DAG Rafel’s brother had to bribe the office Tk 10,000 for the papers, he alleged.
According to Rafel, he went to the sub-registrar’s office yesterday where peon Akkas Ali and clerk Rafiqul Islam Mukul demanded a bribe of Tk 30,000.
Asked whether they would provide any receipt for the money, the employees expressed their inability, he added.
After being informed about the identity of Rafel, the duo even offered him Tk 5,000 concession, he said.
“I left the sub-registrar’s office after they demanded the bribe. My elder brother advocate Golam Rosul eventually gave them Tk 10,000 and completed the deed on Tuesday,” DAG Rafel said.
“The sub-registrar later called me over the phone and requested to take back the money. I replied that I didn’t give the money as a bribe and therefore, I will not go to his office to take it back,” he added.
The DAG said he along with his elder brother went to the office for the registry of a bank’s mortgage paper so that he could take a bank loan through mortgaging a land.
Some officials of a government bank were also accompanying him.
After the DAG made a Facebook post, narrating the incident, officials of the sub-registrar’s office and deed writers held a meeting. They called the DAG and apologised for the incident, said sources.
According to sources at the sub-registrar’s office, it was a bank’s mortgage deeds that were supposed to be handled by the bank officials. So, the office was not supposed to demand any money for that.
“It was a government office. They demanded the money even after I introduced myself. I was very disappointed,” the DAG said.
Contacted, Sub-Registrar Subrata Kumar Singha said he knew nothing about the incident. He said he completed the deeds within the shortest time.
“After instant investigation, we found Mukul guilt and suspended him from his job,” he said.
