Dhaka, June 25 -- The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested former chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal.

Awal was taken into custody around 2pm on Wednesday from Dhaka's Moghbazar, according to DMP Deputy Commissioner and spokesman Muhammad Talebur Rahman.

He was apprehended just three days after the arrest of former chief election commissioner Nurul Huda, who is also an accused in the case initiated by the BNP over conducting elections "without people's mandate".

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