Police arrested former chief election commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda on Sunday evening, hours after the BNP filed a case against him and several others.
The officer-in-charge of Uttara West police station confirmed the matter. However, details regarding the case under which he was arrested were not immediately available.
Earlier, local residents in Dhaka's Uttara area detained him and turned him over to the police.
The BNP submitted a case application at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station accusing 24 individuals, including three former chief election commissioners, of conducting fraudulent elections.
Among those named in the case are the then CEC of the 2014 general elections, Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad.
The list also includes Sheikh Hasina, then-prime minister who was ousted during the July uprising; former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan; former inspector general of police (IGP) Hassan Mahmood Khandker; and several other government officials.
Also accused are CEC KM Nurul Huda of the 2018 general elections, election commissioners Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanam, and Brigadier Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury.
Others named in the complaint include then-IGP Javed Patwary, then-Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Benazir Ahmed, former IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque, former Special Branch (SB) chief Md Monirul Islam, and the former chiefs (unnamed) of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) and National Security Intelligence (NSI), as well as former deputy inspector general (DIG) of Dhaka Range Police Syed Nurul Alam.
Finally, the application also names the chief election commissioner of the 2024 national election, Kazi Habibul Awal.
