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| Lawyers talk to newsmen after the verdict at the High Court on 1 December. |
Following the High Court verdict on the 21st August grenade attack case, lawyer of three accused, Mohammad Shishir Monir, said that the trial in the lower court has been declared illegal.
The judgment noted that the trial in the lower court was not based on the law.
The High Court delivered this verdict on Sunday, declaring the trial in the lower court based on the supplementary charge sheet to be illegal and invalid.
The court dismissed the death reference and granted the appeals of the accused.
As a result, all convicts including BNP's acting chairman Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, were acquitted in this case.
The High Court bench comprising justices AKM Asaduzzaman and Syed Enayet Hossain delivered the verdict.
After the verdict, speaking to newsmen, lawyer Shishir Monir said the lower court had sentenced 49 individuals, including 19 to death, 19 to life imprisonment, and others to various terms of imprisonment.
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