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DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Wednesday acquitted an ex-minister sentenced to death for historic gun-running to Indian rebels, charges his lawyer said had been falsified by the now-ousted previous government.
Lutfuzzaman Babar, a former home affairs minister in his late 60s, was acquitted along with five others by ChittagongĀ“s High Court, his lawyer Shishir Monir told reporters. āThe prosecution failed to produce any credible evidenceā, Monir said.
He said ex-minister Babar had been falsely implicated in the gun-running plot because he was a senior member of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), arch-rivals of Hasina.
The case dates back to 2004 when Bangladeshi police seized 10 trucks packed with weapons, including rockets and grenades.
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