Dhaka, June 23 -- Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday dismissed reports of former Chief Election Commissioner Habibul Awal's arrest, saying the news circulated on Sunday was incorrect.

"The news published yesterday (Sunday) regarding the arrest of former CEC Habibul Awal is not correct, he has not been arrested yet. It is Nurul Huda who has been arrested," he said while talking to reporters after visiting the Horticulture Centre in Mouchak area of Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur on Monday morning, as per a UNB report.

The Home Adviser said mob violence carried out during the detention of ex-CEC KM Nurul Huda is in no way acceptable.

"The way mob justice was carried out during his detention is not acceptabl...