<p>Dhaka: Bangladesh's former chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal was arrested on Wednesday, days after his predecessor K M Nurul Huda was taken into custody on charges of election manipulation during the Sheikh Hasina regime.</p>.<p>“(Police’s) detective branch (DB) arrested (Awal) him at around 2 pm from the Mogbazar area (in the capital),” Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner Talebur Rahman said.</p>.<p>Awal is the second former election commission chief to be arrested this week after the Sunday night arrest of his predecessor K M Nurul Huda on charges of manipulating elections. Huda was also assaulted by a mob before his arrest.</p>.Bangladesh tribunal removes ex-PM Hasina’s lawyer who had demanded her execution.<p>Awal served as the 13th Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh from February 2022 to September 2024. His predecessor Huda served as CEC from February 2017 to February 2022.</p>.<p>Media reports said Awal was now in police custody awaiting his court appearance and subsequent legal procedures.</p>.<p>The arrests were made after former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) filed a case against 19 people, including Huda, for conducting general elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024 under Hasina regime "without people's mandate". Hasina had won all these elections.</p>.<p>Huda's assault triggered an uproar in social media, prompting Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus’ interim government to issue a statement around midnight.</p>.<p>It also warned of appropriate actions against such people.</p>.<p>The army troops, who now discharge tasks of law enforcement, later arrested one of the assailants and handed him over to the police for legal action.</p>.<p>Yunus took over as the head of the interim government after Hasina was ousted in a massive student-led protest in August last year. She fled to India following the toppling of her Awami League government.</p>.<p>Most senior leaders of the Awami League and ministers and senior officials of the ousted regime were arrested or fled the country after the fall of the then government.</p>.<p>Several of these leaders, including ministers, in the past several months, came under mob attack, particularly in court premises.</p>.<p>Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's residence at 32 Dhanmondi in Dhaka, which was turned into a memorial museum, was demolished by a mob using bulldozers in February this year. </p>
<p>Dhaka: Bangladesh's former chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal was arrested on Wednesday, days after his predecessor K M Nurul Huda was taken into custody on charges of election manipulation during the Sheikh Hasina regime.</p>.<p>“(Police’s) detective branch (DB) arrested (Awal) him at around 2 pm from the Mogbazar area (in the capital),” Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner Talebur Rahman said.</p>.<p>Awal is the second former election commission chief to be arrested this week after the Sunday night arrest of his predecessor K M Nurul Huda on charges of manipulating elections. Huda was also assaulted by a mob before his arrest.</p>.Bangladesh tribunal removes ex-PM Hasina’s lawyer who had demanded her execution.<p>Awal served as the 13th Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh from February 2022 to September 2024. His predecessor Huda served as CEC from February 2017 to February 2022.</p>.<p>Media reports said Awal was now in police custody awaiting his court appearance and subsequent legal procedures.</p>.<p>The arrests were made after former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) filed a case against 19 people, including Huda, for conducting general elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024 under Hasina regime "without people's mandate". Hasina had won all these elections.</p>.<p>Huda's assault triggered an uproar in social media, prompting Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus’ interim government to issue a statement around midnight.</p>.<p>It also warned of appropriate actions against such people.</p>.<p>The army troops, who now discharge tasks of law enforcement, later arrested one of the assailants and handed him over to the police for legal action.</p>.<p>Yunus took over as the head of the interim government after Hasina was ousted in a massive student-led protest in August last year. She fled to India following the toppling of her Awami League government.</p>.<p>Most senior leaders of the Awami League and ministers and senior officials of the ousted regime were arrested or fled the country after the fall of the then government.</p>.<p>Several of these leaders, including ministers, in the past several months, came under mob attack, particularly in court premises.</p>.<p>Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's residence at 32 Dhanmondi in Dhaka, which was turned into a memorial museum, was demolished by a mob using bulldozers in February this year. </p>