8 AL leaders acquitted
A Dhaka court yesterday acquitted eight members of the ruling Awami League and its front organisations of vandalism and assault on police in a 2006 case after the prosecution witnesses did not turn up for sixteen consecutive hearings.
The case had been filed with Paltan Police Station accusing 11 people by name and 500 to 600 others unidentified of damaging vehicles, assaulting police and preventing them from discharging their duties in a occupying-secretariat programme held by the then opposition AL-led 14-party alliance.
Those acquitted yesterday are LGRD State Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanok, Jubo League general secretary Mirza Azam, AL lawmaker Nurunnabi Chowdhury Shaon, former AL MP Haji Mohammad Selim, Dhaka city AL general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Jubo League Dhaka city (south) unit president Mohiuddin Mohi, and Jubo League members Sohail and Jewel.
In the ruling, Second Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Jafar Md Kamruzzaman said that since the charges were framed against the accused in November 2007, the court summoned 16 times the prosecution witnesses including the complainant, Sub-Inspector Selimuzzaman of the police station, to appear before the court. But the witnesses did not comply with the court order.
Yesterday, all the accused in the case were present in the court.
Investigation officer SI Nasirul Alam pressed charges against them on April 7, 2007.
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