Gazipur City Corporation mayor MA Mannan has been suspended over citing criminal charges. Star File Photo.

BNP-backed Gazipur City Corporation Mayor MA Mannan has been suspended from his position over citing of criminal charges.

The suspension was confirmed in a circular issued today by AKM Anisuzzaman, assistant secretary of the LGRD and cooperative ministry.

“The order from the ministry came to us in an email this afternoon,” Nezamul Haque, assistant secretary of Gazipur City Corporation, told our Gazipur correspondent.

AKM Anisuzzaman said that Mannan has been suspended after the senior judicial magistrate court of Gazipur accepted a charge sheet against him in a criminal case filed with Joydevpur Police Station.

The suspension has been made as per the Local Government (City Corporation) Act-2009, the circular signed by assistant secretary AKM Anisuzzaman stated.

Mayor Mannan, also an adviser of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, was arrested from his residence at Baridhara on February 11 earlier this year.

Later on July 21, the High Court granted three months’ bail to him in two cases filed with Joydebpur and Kaliakair police stations, clearing the way for his release from jail.