Full text of acquittal verdict on Tarique, Zubaida published

The full text of the High Court (HC) verdict has been published, granting the appeal filed against the three-year imprisonment sentence of Dr. Zubaida Rahman, wife of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tariq Rahman, reports BSS.

Tarique Rahman has also been acquitted from two sections of the case, six and three years. The 52-page verdict has been published on the Supreme Court website. In the verdict, it has been ordered to release the seized property to Tarique Rahman.

On May 28, a single HC bench of Justice Md. Khasruzzaman gave the verdict. The full text of the verdict has been published on Monday.

On September 26, 2007, the ACC filed a case against Tarique Rahman, Zubaida Rahman and his mother Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu at the capital's Kafrul Police Station on charges of concealing information about assets and acquiring assets inconsistence with their known sources of income.

After the trial of the case, on August 2, 2023, Tarique Rahman was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison under two sections and his wife Dr. Zubaida Rahman was sentenced to three years in prison.