Overview

• Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch arrested Kazi Habibul Awal on June 25 and a court placed him on three-day remand in a BNP case alleging election manipulation during the 2014, 2018 and 2024 polls.
• His arrest followed last Sunday’s detention of former CEC K.M. Nurul Huda, who was humiliated by a mob before police custody on similar electoral irregularity charges.
• The BNP has accused 24 former election officials, including both CECs, of biased conduct without a popular mandate in three national elections under Sheikh Hasina’s government.
• Human rights organizations and 30 eminent citizens have condemned the violent treatment of Nurul Huda and criticized the interim Yunus government for failing to prosecute the attackers.
• Analysts view the legal actions against ex-CECs as part of a political vendetta by Muhammad Yunus’s interim administration against Sheikh Hasina’s former regime.