Dhaka, Oct. 4 -- Former chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal has been formally arrested in a murder case while awaiting release from jail after securing bail in another case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ashraful Haque issued the order on Sunday in the case over the killing of garment worker Rubel in the capital's Adabor during the July 2024 mass uprising, according to prosecution police Sub-Inspector Mizanur Rahman.

Awal had been in jail since his arrest on Jun 25 last year in a case filed by the BNP alleging sedition and the holding of elections "without people's votes".

A court placed him on three days' remand the following day.

He secured bail from the High Court in that case on Sept 9 and had been awaiting release when ...