Voting Rights and Suffrage/History/Country sources/Bangladesh

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What is the oldest written source in this country that mentions this right?

Bangladesh

Article 122 of the 1972 Bangladesh Constitution describes the following qualifications for voters: "(1) The elections to Parliament shall be on the basis of adult franchise. (2) A person shall be entitled to be enrolled on the electoral roll for a constituency delimited the purpose of election to Parliament, if he- (a) is a citizen of Bangladesh; (b) is not less than eighteen years of age; c) does not stand declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind; and (d) is or is deemed by law to be a resident of that constituency."

References:

http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/research/bangladesh-constitution.pdf