Tarique Rahman cleared of sedition charges in Jashore

BNP Acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman has been acquitted in a sedition case filed in Jashore. 

District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam passed the verdict today, said Jashore Public Prosecutor (PP) Syed Saberul Haque Sabu.

Court sources said Jashore District Awami League Organizing Secretary and UP Chairman SM Afzal Hossain, as the plaintiff, filed the sedition case against Tarique Rahman in the Jashore Senior Judicial Magistrate's Court on November 9, 2014.

He claimed in the case that Tarique Rahman had insulted Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from London.

Syed Saberul Haque Sabu stated that the investigation officer of the case, Sheikh Gani Mia, who was the Police Inspector (Investigation) at Jashore Kotwali Police Station at that time, submitted the charge sheet to the court on June 21, 2015.

Since the case lacked merit, he said, the government lawyers had recently made a plea to the court to acquit Tarique Rahman.

In light of this, the court cleared Tarique Rahman after reviewing the evidence, he added.