A case has been filed in opposition to 162 individuals, including earlier faculty member of parliament (MP) Golam Kibria Tipu, over allegations of vote rigging and seizing polling stations sometime of the 2018 national elections in Barishal’s Babuganj.
Anwar Hossain Hemayet, member secretary of Deherhoti BNP, lodged the case on Thursday night (21 November) at Babuganj Police Enlighten, mentioned Sheikh Aminul Islam, officer-in-price (OC) of the design this morning (24 November).
Declaring that police well-liked the case and initiated an investigation, Aminul additionally mentioned efforts are underway to arrest the individuals involved.
The case names 12 individuals explicitly, including Golam Kibria Tipu, who’s a Jatiya Occasion praesidium member and a earlier faculty MP, as properly as infamous Awami League leaders comparable to SM Khaled Hossain Swapan, the president of Babuganj Upazila Awami League, and Md Aktaruzzaman Milon, the regular secretary of the occasion.
Aged upazila chairman Farzana Binte Wahab and other influential figures have additionally been accused within the case.
Moreover to the named individuals, the case lists 150 unidentified persons as accused.
In step with the criticism, sometime of the 2018 national elections, the accused allegedly occupied polling stations in Babuganj’s Thakur Mollick Authorities Main College below Jahangirnagar Union.
It additionally mentioned armed individuals reportedly attacked polling agents of the BNP, establish motorcycles on fireplace, and detonated bombs to take hold of attend watch over of the polling design. The complainant alleges these actions allowed the accused to commit electoral fraud and salvage a manipulated victory.
Golam Kibria Tipu was arrested on 14 November within the Konda Union quandary of Keraniganj. Locals apprehended Tipu and handed him over to legislation enforcement.
He is currently in custody.
