Anisul Huq sent to jail 

A Dhaka court has sent to jail former Law Minister Anisul Huq in a case lodged over rigging of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) polls in 2019.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahin Reza passed the order on Friday.

Shahbagh Police Station Sub Inspector Mainul Islam Khan Puluk, also investigation officer, produced Huq before the court after end of his five-day remand and pleaded to keep him behind the bars in the case lodged with.

Supreme Court lawyer ABM Ibrahim Khalil filed the case on September 30 for allegedly getting SCBA members attacked by police and Awami League cadres on March 15, 2019, and rigging the polls, using fake ballots.