All the defendants, including Khalid Zia’s son Tariq and former minister Babar, were acquitted in the grenade attack on former Prime Minister Hasina’s official residence.

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s Dhaka High Court on Sunday gave relief to the family of former Prime Minister Khalid Zia. The High Court acquitted all the accused, including her son, in the 2004 grenade bomb attack on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s house. Let us tell you that the High Court, while quashing the lower court verdict, convicted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son Tariq Rehman and former State Minister Lutfuzaman Awami League in the Awami League rally grenade attack case. All defendants, including Babar, were found not guilty. In 2004, leader Sheikh Hasina gave.

“The high court quashed the lower court’s verdict and acquitted all the accused, including Tariq Rahman,” said 57-year-old acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Rahman, spokesman for the attorney general’s office. Man.” Two cases of murder and one under the Explosives Act were registered following the grenade attack at an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka. The attack killed 24 people and injured about 300 others.

49 people charged in 24 murders

Justice A.of.M.Judges Asaduzzaman and Syed Inayat Hussain acquitted all 49 defendants in the case and said the trial court’s verdict in the cases was “illegal”. The lower court based its decision on the confession of Mufti Abdul Hannan, an accused in the case of the outlawed Islamic Jihad The top leader of the organization (HuJI). Hannan was sentenced to death in a separate case. The High Court held that the confession was not concrete evidence as it was coerced and had not been properly scrutinized by the magistrate concerned. (language)

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