Staff Correspondent:

BNP Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman has been acquitted in a sedition case filed in Jashore.

Jashore District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam passed the verdict on Monday.

District Public Prosecutor (PP) Syed Saberul Haque Sabu confirmed the matter to the media.

Court sources said Jashore District Awami League Organizing Secretary and Union Parishad Chairman SM Afzal Hossain filed the sedition case against Tarique Rahman in the Jashore Senior Judicial Magistrate’s Court on November 9, 2014.

In the case, Afzal claimed that Tarique Rahman had insulted Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from London.

Saberul Haque Sabu stated that the case’s investigation officer, Sheikh Gani Mia, who was the Police Inspector (Investigation) at Kotwali Police Station at that time, submitted the charge sheet to the court on June 21, 2015.

He said the government lawyers had recently appealed to the court to acquit Tarique Rahman since the case lacked merit. In light of this, the court cleared Tarique Rahman after reviewing the evidence and hearing the witnesses.