Dhaka, March 20 -- Sayem Sobhan Anvir, the managing director of Bashundhara Group, and seven other individuals have been acquitted of charges of murder and rape in another case over the death of student Mosarat Jahan Muniya.

The Bashundhara boss had earlier got off the hook in a case on allegations that he instigated the college girl to take her own life.

Judge Shawkat Ali of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 passed the latest verdict on Wednesday, said Public Prosecutor Mohammad Rezaul Karim.

A final report of the Police Bureau of Investigation police said no accused was recommended to be prosecuted.

The judge dismissed a plea by Muniya's sister Nusrat Jahan Tania, the plaintiff of the case, objecting to the police ...