Assistant Registration Officer (ARO) of DCC ward No. 41 (Agargaon) Aminul Huq Bhuiyan could not return the forms to the EC Secretariat due to illness.

Meanwhile, during a visit to the area yesterday this correspondent detected a number of anomalies in the 899 forms.

Locals in the area alleged that they were not included as voters whereas many of those whose names are on the list do not even exist. The addresses that have been used in the forms in fact belong to some locals left off the list.

Atikul Islam, who prepared the disputed 899 forms, was found to Have used false identity where he claimed himself to be a teacher, and prepared the list in March, a month before his appointment as an enumerator.

The EC officials yesterday kept waiting throughout the day for Aminul to submit the 899 registration forms. Later some of them including a deputy election commissioner went to Agargaon, searching for him but to no avail.

When asked how did Atikul get the registration forms even before his recruitment, District Election Officer-3 and Registration Officer Samsul Alam could not give a satisfactory answer.

Atikul had used the seal of Mohammadpur Pre-Cadet Academy and High School while submitting the forms. But the election office showed him as a teacher of Shyamoli Pre-Cadet Academy.

The headmaster of Shyamoli Pre-Cadet Academy, the only institution by that name in the locality, Mominul Islam said he does not have any teacher by that name and none of his teachers are working as enumerators.

Locals said Atikul is married to a Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal leader of DCC ward No. 41 and a close associate of the local commissioner.

He prepared the voter list in March while a district election officer in a letter asked Aminul on April 2 to appoint Atik as an enumerator.

Aminul yesterday told the press that his current physical condition did not allow him to go to the election office and his doctors too have told him to rest.

He said he was not feeling secure and so he has been living somewhere else.

He earlier told the reporters that he had been instructed by the election officials to include fake names in the voter list.

During the visit to Agargaon, this correspondent found that many of those listed as voters do not live at the addresses mentioned in the forms. For instance, Hemayet Howladar, Sabuj Sardar, and Akhtar Hossain do not live at 152/Ka/9 Agargaon, the address they mentioned in the forms.

The residents of the house said they know only two out of 14 names mentioned in the list.

Several garment workers were listed with the forms not mentioning that they don't live there and that they only work at garments in that area. They were described as permanent residents.

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