Dhaka, Oct. 12 -- A court has acquitted all suspects in the 2010 murder case of Rajshahi University (RU) Chhatra League activist Faruk Hossain.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Sessions Judge Zulfikar Ullah delived the verdict in the widely discussed case around 2:15pm on Sunday.

All 114 accused in the case were leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir. Jamaat's then chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and some senior leaders were also accused.

State lawyer Ali Ashraf Masum said the court acquitted all of them as the charges could not be proven beyond reasonable doubt based on the evidence.

Of the 114 accused in the case, nine have died in the 15 years since the murder, while 25 of the 105 living suspects were present in court w...