The High Court on Wednesday acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman in a corruption case, overturning a lower court verdict that had jailed the BNP leader for six years and his wife for three years in absentia during the ousted Awami League regime.
This was the last of the 84 cases against the BNP leader in which he was cleared by the court. This was also the fifth and final conviction in which Tarique was acquitted.