A Dhaka court has acquitted 22 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, including its senior joint secretary general Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel and Juba Dal president Sultan Salauddin Tuku, from a case filed allegedly for obstructing police from conducting their duties.
Judge Abul Kashem of Dhaka special judge court-1 passed the order on Thursday.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on November 20, 2023, convicted and sentenced each of the 22 BNP activists two-year in jail in the case. The convicts later appealed against their conviction in the judge court.
Allowing the appeal, the court acquitted the 22 people from the case, Jakir Hossain Jewel, counsel of Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel, told media.
According to the case document, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on October 28, 2017, was scheduled to visit party鈥檚 Naya Paltan office.
As her motorcade reached Naya Paltan, the convicts obstructed police from conducting their duties. They allegedly hurled brickbats at the law enforcers.
Paltan thana police filed a case in this connection and court pressed charge-sheet of the case on August 6, 2019.
The acquitted leaders include BNP鈥檚 information and research affairs secretary Azizul bari Helal, former Juba Dal president Saiful Alam Nirob, Swechchhasebak Dal general secretary Razib Ahsan, former general of secretaries of Chhatra Dal Akramul Hasan Mintu and Habibur Rashid Habib and Juba Dal Dhaka South unit president Enamul Haque Rana.
