The High Court on Thursday acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson鈥檚 adviser Amanullah Aman of charges in an extortion case filed in 2007.
A High Court division bench of justices AKM Asaduzzaman and Syed Enayet Hossain passed the order, allowing an appeal filed by the BNP leader against the conviction and sentence of lower court.
Senior advocates AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Nazmul Huda moved the case for Aman before the court.
Rafiqul Alam of East Aganagar area under South Keraniganj police station filed the case on March 6, 2007, for taking Tk 5,00,000 extortion.
The lower court on May 8, 2008, convicted Aman and sentenced him to seven-year imprisonment. The court also fined him Tk 1,00,000.
The BNP leader later filed an appeal with the High Court against the lower court judgment.
