A Dhaka court has granted a four-day remand for former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda in a case filed by the BNP over alleged fraudulent parliamentary elections.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman passed the order on Monday (June 23) after hearing arguments from both prosecution and defence.

Earlier, Sub-Inspector Shamsuzzoha Sarkar of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station this morning had produced Nurul Huda before the court and sought a 10-day remand. 

Metropolitan Public Prosecutor Omar Faruq Faruqi represented the state during the hearing, while the defence sought bail and opposed the remand plea.

After the hearing, the court allowed a four-day remand for interrogation.

On Sunday (June 22) evening, locals first detained Ex-CEC Huda and handed him over to Uttara police. 

According to a video circulated on social media shows Nurul Huda, wearing a lungi, surrounded by a group of angry people who forced a garland of shoes around his neck.

Earlier on Sunday morning, BNP filed a case against three former Election Commissions for allegedly staging fraudulent elections in the 10th, 11th, and 12th parliamentary polls.

The case was filed by Salahuddin Ahmed, a member of BNP’s National Executive Committee, with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. A total of 24 people, including former CECs Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, KM Nurul Huda, and Kazi Habibul Awal, have been named as accused in the case.

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