‘Benefit Fraud’: Govt officials reimburse man after punishment
The Narayanganj district administration reimbursed some of the money a man spent for distributing relief among 100 people as punishment for seeking government food assistance.
The executive magistrate, who handed down the punishment, had claimed that seventy-five-year-old Farid Ahmmed Khan resorted to benefit fraud.
Locals, however, said the man, along with his family members, lives from hand to mouth and that the punishment became a huge burden on the person struggling to survive.
Farid s wife Hiron Begum said they had to borrow and spend around Tk 75,000 to arrange the food distribution.
Talking to The Daily Star last night, Farid said he got Tk 60,000. The district administration said the remaining Tk 15,000 would be given later, he added.