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Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairperson Tariq Rahman acquitted in grenade attacks case on Sheikh Hasina

Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

Dhaka: Bangladesh High Court has acquitted all the accused including the Acting Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tareq Rahman in the August 21 grenade attacks case on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, lawyers said on Sunday.

The court also scrapped the lower court verdict, in which a total of 49 persons were convicted. Among them, the lower court sentenced 19 people including former State Minister Lutfuzzaman Babar to death and acquitted all the accused.

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