Sentenced to 5 years with fake votes!

The Dhaka Times Desk A leader of Awami League is going to jail for fake vote. Again, he was accused of giving fake votes to win the Jatiya Party!

There are many allegations of fraudulent voting in the 10th National Election held yesterday. Many people came to vote and saw that their votes had already been cast. Again, the polling station was captured and sealed. One of the leaders of the ruling party was caught and sentenced to 5 years for fake voting!

a In the online edition of the daily A news regarding this has been published. According to the news, five people including Awami League leader Umm Fatema Najma Begum aka Shiuli Azad have been sentenced to different terms for casting fake votes in the Brahmanbaria-2 (Sarail-Ashuganj) constituency in the 10th National Parliament election. Magistrate of the election-related special court. Kamal Hossain Shikder sentenced Shiuli Azad and Ashraf Uddin to five years and three women assistant presiding officers to three years in the district circuit house. Others sentenced are Upazila Jubo League joint convener Ashraf Uddin, three women assistant presiding officers Kohinur Begum, Jobeda Begum and Nachima Begum.

The news also said that Shiuli Azad is the wife of Upazila Awami League Senior Vice President AKM Iqbal Azad who was killed in a party conflict on October 21, 2012. Shiuli Azad also got Awami League's nomination in the 10th National Assembly elections. Later, he withdrew his nomination papers on the instructions of the party and supported Ziaul Haque Mridha, the candidate of the plow symbol.

It is to be noted that District Joint Judge Kamal Hossain Shikdar went to the Uchaliapara Government Primary School center of Upazila Sadar at around 1:15 yesterday and arrested three women assistant presiding officers while voting on the plow symbol. At that time 50 fake votes were also seized from them. Later they were handed over to Sarail police station. The three women told the police in writing that they had assisted in fake voting under the instructions and pressure of Shiuli Azad and Ashraf Uddin.