22 BNP men acquitted of case filed by police

A Dhaka court has acquitted 22 leaders and activists of BNP, including its senior joint secretary general Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel and Juba Dal president Sultan Salauddin Tuku from a case filed allegedly for obstructing police from conducting their duties, reports BSS.

Judge Abul Kashem of Dhaka Special Judge Court-1 passed the order on Thursday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court sentenced two years in jail to each of the 22 BNP men in the case.

The convicts later appealed against their conviction in the judge court.

"Allowing the appeal, the court acquitted the 22 people from the case," Advocate Jakir Hossain Jewel, counsel of Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel, said.

According to the case document, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on October 28, 2017, was scheduled to visit party's Naya Paltan office.

As her motorcade reached Naya Paltan, the convicts obstructed police from conducting their duties. They allegedly hurled brickbats at the law enforcers.

Paltan thana police filed a case in this connection and court pressed charge-sheet of the case on August 6, 2019.