Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon has won the president post while the Awami League supported candidate Shah Monjurul Haque has obtained the secretary post in the violence-hit election to the Supreme Court Bar Association.
AL supported panel has got nine posts, including those of the secretary, five office bearers and three executive members, in the violence-hit election to Supreme Court Bar Association while BNP supported panel has obtained four posts, including those the president and three executive members, according to unofficial results announced two days after the election held on Wednesday and Thursday.
Khokon defeated his rival Abu Sayeed Sagar by 83 votes while Shah Monjurul Haque defeated his rival Ruhul Quddus Kazal by 1617 votes.
Kazal, two-time former secretary of the association, was arrested from his Tophkhana law chamber when the votes counting resumed amid tight security on Saturday afternoon.
The votes counting remained halted sine Friday night following clashes between the supporters of Monju and Nahid Sultana Juthi, a rebel AL candidate and the wife of Awami Juba League chairman Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash over a debate if the counting should be done at night or day time.
Kazal supported Juthi about starting the vote counting on Friday night while their rival Monju opposed it.
Earlier the chief election commissioner Abul Khair declared Juthi as secretary without vote counting following the clashes.
Juthi obtained 269 votes according to the results.
Kazal, one of his supporters and three other people have been arrested in a case, filed by assistant attorney general Saiful Islam Siddique Saif for attempting to kill him during the clashes.
Kazal alleged that the election was not free and fair and he demanded fresh polls under a neutral election commission under the supervision of the chief justice.
