After scrutinising the case docket and other relevant documents, Metropolitan Magistrate Selina Akhter accepted the charge sheet and sent to the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) for next steps.

On July 25, Assistant Superintendent (ASP) of CID Munshi Atiqur Rahman, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the CMM's Court, Dhaka showing 17 people as prosecution witnesses.

Police filed the sedition case with a Dhaka court on March 11 in 2002 accusing Nasim of acting against the country's sovereignty and tarnishing its image abroad.

Mohammad Dulal Uddin Akond, ASP of CID's Faridpur zone, arrested Bahauddin Nasim on February 27, 2002 from Zia International Airport and seized $6,300, three passports, two tickets, eight books and some CDs.

The complainant alleged that the CDs contained 'false and fabricated scenes of torture' on the minority community, videos of ransacking of rooms at Dhaka University dormitories and houses at different parts of the country by the activists of the four-party alliance.

He said the CDs contained videos of attacks on the minority Hindu community and ransacking of puja mandaps after 2001 general election.

"Such activities might destroy the communal harmony and worsen the country's law and order," he observed.