Dhaka, May 1 -- The Election Commission has described as "abnormal" the registration of unusually high numbers of voters at several houses on a single road in Narayanganj, including two properties owned by a former city councillor.

At Holding No. 56 on Mokorba Road in Khanpur, Ward No. 11 of Narayanganj City Corporation, a tin-shed house occupied by just five tenant families has 182 registered voters.

A short distance away, another three-storey house at Holding No. 43/1, where six families live including the landlord and his brother's family, has 136 registered voters.

Both houses belong to former councillor Wahidul Islam Chhakku.

Two other houses on the same road - Holdings No. 49 and 51 - account for another 120 voters.

According t...