Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday arrested two people for allegedly using bamboo sticks instead of iron rods in a construction work in Gaibandha.

An ACC team with the help of police detained Abdul Khalek, proprietor of M/s Abdul Khalek, and ASM Arif Billah, deputy assistant engineer of the Department of Public Health Engineering, from Gaibandha Sadar, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.

M/s Abdul Khalek won a work last year to construct a toilet at Meghadumura government primary school in Gaibandha Sadar and it started the construction work in September 2015 involving Tk 8.5 lakh. The construction firm was supposed to use iron rods in building toilet, but it used bamboo sticks.

The scandalous incident came in the lime light on April 8 last when villagers from Meghdumur village found that construction workers using bamboo sticks and thin iron pipes of abandoned benches of the school after breaking a window and door. Later, they informed the local UP chairman and the authorities concerned about it.

A seven-member committee was then formed to investigate the incident.

Pranab said the ACC launched an inquiry into the allegation on Tuesday and it arrested two people involved in the construction work on Wednesday as the Commission suspects that they might go into hiding.