{"id":7089,"date":"2026-01-19T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T07:56:36","slug":"returning-officer-summons-rumeen-farhana-for-allegedly-showing-raised-finger-threatening-executive-magistrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7089","title":{"rendered":"Returning Officer Summons Rumeen Farhana for Allegedly Showing \u201cRaised Finger,\u201d Threatening Executive Magistrate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Returning Officer for Brahmanbaria-2 has summoned independent candidate <strong>Barrister Rumeen Farhana<\/strong> to appear on <strong>Thursday, January 22 at 11:00 a.m.<\/strong> to explain allegations that she <strong>showed a raised finger<\/strong> and issued threats to an Executive Magistrate who attempted to halt an allegedly unlawful campaign rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a notice issued Sunday (January 18), Returning Officer <strong>Sharmin Akter Jahan<\/strong> wrote that on <strong>Saturday, January 17 (around 4\u20135 p.m.)<\/strong> Farhana held a political assembly of <strong>400\u2013500 people<\/strong> at <strong>Islampur, Noagaon Union, Sarail Upazila<\/strong>, using a large stage and sound system\u2014actions the notice says violate the <strong>Political Parties and Candidates\u2019 Code of Conduct 2025<\/strong>. When a mobile court moved to stop the event, the letter alleges Farhana behaved \u201cdiscourteously,\u201d made threats, and her supporters acted aggressively, creating a \u201cmob\u201d that obstructed judicial duties. The incident has circulated widely on social and mainstream media, the notice adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If Farhana fails to appear<\/strong>, the Returning Officer warned that <strong>legal measures<\/strong> may be taken in absentia. Copies of the notice were sent to the Election Commission Secretary and other relevant authorities. Farhana, <strong>expelled from the BNP<\/strong>, is contesting the seat as an independent. The <strong>13th National Parliamentary Election<\/strong> is scheduled for <strong>February 12, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Returning Officer for Brahmanbaria-2 has summoned independent candidate Barrister Rumeen Farhana to appear on Thursday, January 22 at 11:00 a.m. to explain allegations that she showed a raised finger and issued threats to an Executive Magistrate who attempted to halt an allegedly unlawful campaign rally. In a notice issued Sunday (January 18), Returning Officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7096,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions\/7096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}