Former chief election commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Tuesday gave a confessional statement in a case lodged for manipulating the national election.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ziadur Rahman recorded Nurul's statement under Section 164 after the police produced him before the court after the end of his four-day remand in the case and pleaded to record his statement.
After recording the confessional statement, the court sent Nurul to jail.
The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain Mohammad Zunayed on June 27 placed KM Nurul Huda on a four-day remand in the case. Nurul Huda had been placed on a four-day remand for the first time in the case on June 23.
BNP National Executive Committee Member Md Salahuddin Khan filed the case on June 22 against 24 individuals, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners, for manipulating the national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024.
Former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, four former inspectors general of police (IGP), several former election commissioners, and former chiefs of the Special Branch (SB), National Security Intelligence (NSI) and Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) have been accused in the case.
Later that day, police took KM Nurul Huda into custody from his residence in Sector 5 of Uttara after a mob apprehended the former CEC around 7pm.
He was later shown arrested in the case.