10 Jailed for Trying to Destabilize CCC Polls
Desk Report
Published: 15 Jun 2022, 03:35 pm
Detained on charges of destabilizing the elections situation || Photo: Comilla correspondent
District
Magistrate and Deputy Commissioner Kamrul Hasan has sentenced 10 people to
different terms for destabilizing the situation in different wards of Cumilla
City Corporation (CCC) elections.
Among
them, Didar Hossain of Ward 23 was sentenced to seven days imprisonment without
parole. One from Sadar Dakshin was sentenced to three days imprisonment, two
from Ward 3 were sentenced to three days imprisonment, and three from Ward 10
were sentenced to three days imprisonment without parole, two persons from
Barapukur area were sentenced to seven days imprisonment without parole and one
was sentenced to seven days imprisonment at Hochhamia Girls School.
Confirming
the matter, Deputy Commissioner Kamrul Hasan said, "We have seen here that
they were trying to create an untoward situation in the election." Some of
them have been sentenced to three days and some to seven days.
Earlier
in the day, voting started at 8 am in all the centers of CCC using electronic
voting machines. Voting will continue till 4 pm in 105 polling stations in 27
wards of the city.