Dhaka, June 22 -- The BNP has filed a case with Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, alleging that Election Commission officials did not fulfil their duties and instead conducted polls through intimidation without allowing the people to vote. Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former chief election commissioners have been named as suspects in the case.

The plaintiff in the case is Salah Uddin Khan, a former police officer and member of the BNP's National Executive Committee, and the coordinator in charge of preserving the party's information on cases, disappearances, murders, and data.

The case alleges that BNP leaders and activists kept away from the election process by threatening them with false cases, kidnappings, enforc...