The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday placed former chief election commissioner KM Nurul Huda on a four-day fresh remand for interrogation in a case filed over allegations of irregularities during the past three national elections.
Metropolitan magistrate Awlad Hossain Mohammad Junaid passed the order after sub-inspector Shamsuzzoha Sarkar, also the investigation officer of the case, produced him before the court seeking a 10-day fresh remand in the case.
The court earlier on June 23 granted a four-day remand for Nurul Huda in the case filed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party with the capital鈥檚 Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station.
On Sunday, Nurul Huda, who as the CEC oversaw the 2018 national polls, was arrested after a mob assaulted him at his Uttara residence in the capital.
Nurul Huda, also a freedom fighter, faced humiliation by the mob just before and during his arrest and the incident was condemned by different rights groups and political parties.
The court on Thursday also placed another former chief election commissioner, Kazi Habibul Awal, on a three-day remand for interrogation in the same case. He was arrested by the police on Wednesday at Moghbazar in Dhaka.
The 10th Jatiya Sangsad elections were held under the leadership of then CEC Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad in January 2014, which saw 153 Awami League candidates being elected unopposed. The BNP and other opposition parties boycotted the polls.
In the 11th JS elections, held in December 2018 under then CEC KM Nurul Huda, the BNP alleged that ballot-stuffing occurred the night before the vote.
The 12th general elections of 2024, overseen by then CEC Kazi Habibul Awal, were dismissed by the BNP as 鈥榙ummy polls鈥�, as the party and other opposition political parties did not take part in the vote.
On June 22, BNP national executive committee member Salauddin Khan filed the case accusing ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, three former chief election commissioners, and 20 others for their roles in the three controversial national elections held in 2014, 2018 and 2024.
The other accused include former CECs Nurul Huda, Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, Kazi Habibul Awal, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former Inspectors General of Police Hasan Mahmud Khandker, Javed Patwary, and Shahidul Haque, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Benazir Ahmed, former Special Branch of police chief Monirul Islam, 10 former election commissioners, and the respective former chiefs of the National Security Intelligence and the Directorate General Forces Intelligence.
The BNP claimed that these people were responsible for voter intimidation and manipulation of the electoral process during the three national elections.
