Shawdesh desk:

The High Court on Thursday scrapped a case filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman and three others on sedition charges in 2015.

The HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hossain acquitted them after scrapping the case.

Three others acquitted by the court are-Ekyshey TV chairman Abdus Salam, its former chief reporters Mahathir Faruki Khan and senior reporter Kanak Sarwar.

Advocate Shahdeen Malik stood for Abdus Salam.

On January 5, 2015, a statement of Tarique Rahman was aired live on the Ekushey TV channel.

Tejgaon Police sought a permission from the home ministry to file a sedition case against Tarique and three others on the following day.

On June 8, Sub-inspector Borhan Uddin of the police station filed the case.

According to the case statement, Tarique Rahman in collusion with others were involved in publishing false and fabricated information, posing threat to the sovereignty of the country and creating hatred against the government.

On September 6, 2017, police submitted charge-sheet against them.