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DHAKA, Oct 22, 2025 (BSS) - The High Court (HC) today acquitted all the 44 
people, including former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib, convicted and 
sentenced to different jail terms in an arms case and a case filed under The 
Special Powers Act, over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of the then leader 
of the opposition Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira.
 
A High Court division bench of Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam and Justice 
Mubina Asaf passed the order, allowing the criminal appeals filed by the 
convicts.
 
Advocate Aminul Islam moved the pleas for the defence while Deputy Attorney 
General Mojibur Rahman stood for the state.
 
The HC on February 27, 2025, had acquitted Habibul Islam Habib of another 
case lodged over the attack on the motorcade of Sheikh Hasina.
 
A High Court division bench of Justice Mohammad Ali and Justice Sk Tahsin Ali 
passed the order, allowing a revision plea, challenging the lower court 
judgment that convicted and sentenced him to 10 years' jail in the case of 
the former lawmaker.
 
The attack took place in Kolaroa, Satkhira on August 30, 2002. The attackers 
vandalised a couple of vehicles in the convoy, too.