Municipality polls: Case filed over bomb blast targeting independent mayor candidate in Shariatpur Star Online Report Star Online Report
A case has been filed over explosion of crude bombs targeting the car of independent mayor candidate Abul Bashar Chokdar in Bhedarganj municipality in Shariatpur last night.
Mithun Kumar Mandal, sub-inspector of Bhedarganj Police Station, filed the case against some 150 to 200 unidentified people under the Explosive Substances Act today, ABM Rashidul Bari, officer-in-charge of the police station, told The Daily Star.
Police arrested five people in connection with the case, the OC added.
The arrestees were sent to jail by a district court this evening, the court sources said.
Clashes in Jhenidah and Rajshahi have already made people wary of the elections.
The Election Commission (EC) is using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in 29 municipalities and traditional ballot papers in 31.
The EC has been holding the polls in four phases due to the pandemic. Today s will be the second.
The main contest would presumably be between the Awami League and BNP nominees. Other political parties, including the Jatiya Party and Islami Andolan Bangladesh, are also participating in the polls.
EC Senior Secretary Mohammad Alamgir said the EC had taken measures to prevent violence during and after the polls. We asked law enforcers to maintain law and order and to take strict actions against miscreants, he told The Daily Star.