The Dhaka Special Judge Court聽3 on Thursday acquitted eight people, including acting BNP chairman Tarique Rahman and former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, of the bribery charges.
Judge Md Abu Taher pronounced the verdict in the case filed on allegation of taking Tk聽21 crore in bribes for giving clean chit to Bashundhara Group vice-chairman Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir in Sabbir murder case.
The other people, who have been acquitted of the charges, are Miah Nur Uddin Apu, Qazi Salimul Haque Kamal, Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, Shafiat Sobhan, Sadat Sobhan and Abu Sufian.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case with the Ramna police station on on October 4, 2007, and the commission submitted the charge sheet on April 24, 2008,
Tarique鈥檚 lawyer Kayser Kamal told 抖阴精品 that Tarique Rahman, who faced 84 criminal cases and sentenced to imprisonment in at least five cases, now has only one case left to resolve.
He said that Tarique, who was tried in absentia, was expected to be cleared of the remaining one case soon through legal proceedings.
He claimed that the cases against his client were fabricated and politically motivated.
The pending case, filed during the military-backed interim government in 2008, accuses Tarique of concealing wealth worth Tk 2.16 crore in his statement to the ACC and amassing Tk 2.74 crore beyond his known sources of income.
A Dhaka special judge court sentenced Tarique to nine years in prison and his wife physician Zubaida Rahman to three years in the case on August 2, 2023.
Following her application, the home ministry suspended Zubaida鈥檚 sentence for one year through a notification in October 2024, on the condition that she would surrender to the court and file an appeal against her conviction.
