Five sent to jail

Two separate metropolitan magistrate courts in Dhaka yesterday framed charges indicting five people who were arrested on charges of violating code of electoral conduct during the polling in Dhaka on December 29.
The magistrates sent the accused to jail and fixed January 5, 2009 for deposition with rejecting the bail prayers in the cases. The accused are Eklas, Md Kamrul Hasan, Harunur Rashid, Shahabuddin and Abdur Rahim.
Metropolitan magistrate Abdur Rahim arrested Eklas, Md Kamrul Hasan, Harunur Rashid and Shahabuddin from the polling centre of Kaliganj Government Primary School at Keraniganj on charges of campaigning for four-party alliance candidate being fake polling agents on the election day.
Another metropolitan magistrate Konika Bishwas arrested Abdur Rahim on charges of obstructing the minority voters to cast their votes at the election centre of Shaheed Zia Government High School at Basabo in the city during the election.
The accused were produced before the courts of the magistrates concerned yesterday.
They prayed for bail in the cases through their lawyers.