A Sylhet court on Sunday acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman in two cases filed against him on charge of sedition in 2014.
Sylhet Bar Association member Emran Ahmed Chowdhury, also the district BNP general secretary, confirmed the court order to 抖阴精品.
He said that the Sylhet metropolitan magistrate Sagir Ahmed acquitted Tarique Rahman and dismissed the cases in the afternoon after holding a hearing in this regard.
鈥楾he court dismissed the two cases because the cases were filed intentionally for political harassment,鈥� Emran said.
On December 22 in 2014, the two cases were filed against the then BNP vice-chairman Tarique Rahman with the Sylhet metropolitan magistrate 3rd court.
One of the cases was filed by M Raihan Ahmed Chowdhury, former general secretary of the district unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League while another case was filed by Shamim Molla, former president of the Sylhet Agricultural University unit of the BCL.
Plaintiffs in the cases alleged that Tarique Rahman had distorted the history of independence, sovereignty and the liberation war of Bangladesh, and criticised Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at a discussion programme at East London of the United Kingdom on December 15, 2014.
The then magistrate of the metropolitan 3rd court, Anwarul Haque, had taken the two cases in cognizance and ordered the officer-in-charge of Shah Paran Police Station of the Sylhet Metropolitan Police to submit investigation reports in the cases.