The court on Wednesday sentenced a polling agent of ruling party AwamiLeague (AL) to a six-month rigorous imprisonment on charges of violating the electoral code of conduct at Noannoi union parishad election in Noakhali sadar upazila.
The senior judicial magistrate Touhidul Islam passed the order on Thursday around 1:00pm.
Later the accused, Sumi Akhter, 30, was sent to prison. Sumi was a polling agent of AL nominated candidate Dildar Hossain alias Junayed at Shibpur government primary school. She is a resident of Shibpur.
Senior district election officer, Mezbah Uddin, told Prothom Alo that Sumi herself casted the vote of a woman to her favourite candidate by pressing the EVM button, entering the secret polling booth. At that time, the woman informed an official of the election commission about the matter.
Then the senior judicial magistrate, Touhidul Islam, immediately sentenced the polling agent to a six-month rigorous imprisonment through a mobile court.