DHAKA, Aug 22, 2024 (BSS) - The High Court today scrapped Dhaka Cyber Tribunal's judgment that had convicted and sentenced Adilur Rahman Khan Suvro and ASM Nasir Uddin Elan, secretary and director respectively of rights body Odhikar, to two-year imprisonment in a case lodged under ICT Act.

A High Court bench of Justice Abdur Rob came up with the judgment, allowing a criminal appeal filed in this regard.

"The High Court has allowed the appeal filed by Adilur Rahman Khan Suvro and ASM Nasir Uddin Elan. Now they are completely free of the charges of that false case. Truth has prevailed through this judgment and the falsehood has been defeated," defence counsel Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan said.

Dhaka Cyber Tribunal on September 14, 2023, had pronounced its judgment in presence of the two convicts. The court also fined them Taka 10 thousand each, or to suffer one-month more behind bars in default.

Detective Branch (DB) of police on August 10, 2013, filed a general diary with the Gulshan Police Station against the duo for what they said, "running distorted information and doctored images" regarding the law enforcement agencies' action on a rally of Hefajat-e-Islam in capital's Motijheel on May 5-6, 2013. The matter was later converted into a case.

After conducting the probe, DB filed charge-sheet against Adilur and Elan on September 4, 2013. The case was taken into cognizance by Dhaka Cyber Tribunal on September 11 and they were indicted in 2014.

Odhikar in its report posted on its website, reported that 61 people were killed in the police raid on that night.