Staff Reporter :
A sedition case has been filed in Chattogram against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners (CECs) for conducting what has been alleged as illegal and fraudulent elections.
The accused CECs are Kazi Rakib Uddin Ahmad, KM Nurul Huda, and Kazi Habibul Awal.
The case was filed by Ekramul Karim, a valiant freedom fighter and former general secretary of the Chattogram City BNP, in the court of Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate-6 Kazi Shariful Islam on Wednesday. The court accepted the case and directed the police to initiate an investigation.
Also named in the case are former election commissioners Abu Hafiz, Md Jabed Ali, Abdul Mobarak, Md Shahnewaz, Rafiqul Islam, Kabitan Khanam, Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury, Brigadier General (Retd) Ahsan Habib Khan, Begum Rasheda Sultana, Md Alamgir, and Anisur Rahman. Additionally, former EC secretaries Helal Uddin Ahmed and Jahangir Alam, former Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader, and the MPs of the last three parliaments have been implicated.
Kofil Uddin, the lawyer representing the plaintiff, stated: “In the last three elections, many popular leaders, including the opposition, did not participate. Ordinary people were unable to exercise their vote. In the three elections held at great expense, administrative officials, including the commissioners, violated the constitution. For this, a case of sedition and fraud has been filed.”