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DHAKA, Dec 05, 2024 (BSS)- The High Court (HC) today acquitted BNP chairperson’s adviser Amanullah Aman of charges in an extortion case filed in 2007.

A High Court division bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain passed the order, allowing an appeal filed by the BNP leader against the conviction and sentence of lower court.

Senior advocate Barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and advocate Nazmul Huda moved the case for Aman before the court.

One Rafiqul Alam of East Aganagar area under South Keraniganj Police Station filed the case on March 6, 2007, for taking Taka five lakh extortion.

The lower court on May 8, 2008, convicted Aman and sentenced him to seven-year imprisonment. The court also fined him Taka one lakh.

The BNP leader later filed an appeal with the High Court against the lower court judgment.