Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners. -Collage Photo

DHAKA, June 22, 2025 (BSS) - The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) today filed a case against 24 individuals, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners, for manipulation of the national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024.

Former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, four former inspectors general of police (IGP), several former election commissioners, former chiefs of SB, NSI and DGFI had been accused in the case.

BNP national executive committee member Md Salah Uddin Khan filed the case with the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station. The case number is 11.

The other accused in the case are: former chief election commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakib Uddin Ahmed, former election commissioners (ECs)Md Abdul Mobarak, Abu Hanif, Brig Gen (Retd.) Zabed Ali, Shah Nawaz, former IGP Hasan Mahmud Khandker, former CEC KM Nurul Huda, former ECs Rafiqul Islam, Kabita Khanom, Brig Gen (Retd) Shahadat Hossain Chowdhury, former IGPs Javed Patwary ,Benazir Ahmed and AKM Shahidul Haque, former chief of Special Branch (SB) Md Monirul Islam, former DGFI chief (unidentified), former deputy inspector general (DIG) of Dhaka range Syed Nurul ALam, former CEC Kazi Habib Awal, former ECs Brig Gen (Retd) Ahsan Habib, Alamgir Hossain, Anisur Rahman and then secretary of election commission secretariat (unidentified). 

Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Emaul Haque of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station told BSS that the case was filed against 24 individuals, including former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Many other concerned people were also accused in the case, he said. 

In the case statement, the complainant alleged that then Election Commission officials held farcical national elections in 2014, 2018 and 2024 and announced victory of the candidates without vote which are criminal offences.

The complainant of the case Salah Uddin Khan said then chief election commissioners, election commissioners, several members of the law enforcement agencies including chiefs of police, NSI, DGFI and SB collectively held the national parliamentary elections in 2014, 2018 and 2014. 

Sheikh Hasina claimed herself as Prime Minister by holding votes at nights instead of days.

"So, I filed a case against 24 individuals, including Sheikh Hasina and some unidentified individuals at the police station," he said.

The BNP leader said they had lodged a complaint with the Election Commission in 2018 on charges of violation of the Constitution and committing crimes against then election commissioners through a letter signed by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.

He said they have lodged the cases with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station with evidence of the election manipulation.