DU IBA teacher acquitted of 2010 terror charges

A Dhaka tribunal has acquitted Dhaka University teacher Mohiuddin Ahmed and three others in an around a decade-old case under the Anti-Terrorism Act, reports bdnews24.com.

Two other absconding accused have been jailed for two years in the case started in April, 2010 for conducting a campaign against the state and storing Molotov cocktails bombs.

Judge Mujibur Rahman of an anti-terrorism tribunal finally delivered the verdict having deferred it seven times.

Besides the two-year jail term, Touhidul Alam and Saidur Rahman were fined Tk 5,000 each.

They will have to spend three more months if they do not pay up.

Mohiuddin, a professor at the Institute of Business Administration, was present at the tribunal.

The three others acquitted of the charges are MA Yousuf Khan, Kazi Morshedul Haque, and Tanvir Ahmmed.

The judge ordered police to arrest the two absconding convicts.

Police arrested Hizb ut-Tahrir members Tanvir, Saidur, and Touhidul when they were distributing leaflets and sticking posters with false information outside the Taqwa Mosque at Uttara in the capital on April 18, 2010.

Bombs were also found in their possession, according to the charges.