Ex‑CEC Nurul Huda remanded for four days again in election manipulation case

A Dhaka court today placed former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on a four-day remand afresh in a case lodged for allegedly manipulating the national election. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain Mohammad Zunayed passed the order as police produced the former CEC before the court and pleaded to place him on a 10-day remand in the case filed with the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. The court of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mustafizur Rahman on June 23 had placed KM Nurul Huda on a four-day remand in the case.

BNP national executive committee member Md Salah Uddin Khan filed the case on Sunday morning against 24 individuals, including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners, for manipulating the national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024. Former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, four former inspectors general of police (IGP), several former election commissioners, and former chiefs of SB, NSI and DGFI had been accused in the case. Police later in the day (June 22) took KM Nurul Huda into their custody from his residence at sector 5 of Uttara as a mob apprehended the former CEC at around 7pm. He was later shown arrested in the case.