The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday caught a Waqf official red-handed while taking bribe, reports UNB.

An ACC team, led by its director Nasim Anwar, arrested assistant administrator of the Office of the Administrator of Waqfs Bangladesh Motahar Hossain Khan from his office at 12: 25 pm, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said. Md Faruk Hossain, a member of Keraniganj Baghair Jame Mosque Motowalli (caretaker) Committee, recently went to the Waqf office for having permission to sell a Waqf land of the mosque, but Motahar demanded Tk 50,000 for this work.