DHAKA, Dec 23, 2024(BSS)-A court here today acquitted 84 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat including BNP standing committee member major (Rtd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Bir Bikram, and vice chairman Alataf Hossain Chowdhury from three separate sabotage cases.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Dhaka Md Ziadur Rahman passed the order in three separate cases as the allegations against the accused were not proved with adequate evidences and witnesses.

According to the court sources, in one case accused ten persons including Major Hafiz Uddin Ahmed  and Altaf Hossain Chowdhury were acquitted from their charges. Excepting the two former ministers, Awal Khan, Gazi Khairuzzaman, Mosharraf Hossain, Jalal Sikdar, Md Liton, Ibrahim Khaled Morshed and Jasim Uddin, were among the acquitted persons.

According the prosecution story, one Borhan Uddin, owner of a bus, filed a case with Gulshan Thana on June 6 in 2011 accusing some pro-hartal activists for their alleged involvement in damaging his bus at Gulshan area.
 
Sub-Inspector Md Moniruzzaman Akond of Gulshan Thana submitted a charge sheet to the court accusing 10 people on June 30 in 2014 in which Major Hafiz Uddin and Altaf Hossain Chowdhury were charged. The formal trial process of the case  begun at the court on September 12 in 2017 through framing charge against them.

The same court today acquitted six leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from a case lodged with Kafrul Thana about nine years back. Sub-Inspector Krishna Biswas filed the case on October 18 in 2015.

The court in another case of Jatrabari Thana acquitted 68 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat from the charge. Jatrabari Thana Awami League president Md Faruk Hossain filed a sabotage case on October 28 in 2013.