Dhaka, Feb. 9 -- Former Justice and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Md Abdur Rouf has passed away while undergoing treatment at a city hospital. He was 95.

Rouf breathed his last at 10am on Sunday while receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit at private Insaf Barakah Kidney and General Hospital Dhaka, said his personal assistant Md Tawhid.

As per the family's wish, Rouf will be laid to rest in his ancestral home in Mymensingh after official procedures in Dhaka, said Tawhid.

JusticeRouf played role as the 5th CEC after the fall of HM Ershad regime in the 1990s.

Following the formation of Bangladesh's first caretaker government, headed by Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed, Justice Rouf was appointed as the CEC.

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