Dhaka, Feb. 22 -- A Dhaka court has acquitted The Daily Star's Executive Editor Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker of charges in a case over the injury of a child domestic worker after falling from their eighth floor flat in Dhaka's Mohammadpur last year.

The couple remain in jail in another case where 15-year-old domestic help Preeti Urang died after falling from the same flat this year.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Zaki Al-Farabi accepted the final report of the case on Monday, clearing them of the charges in the first case.

Helal Uddin, sub-inspector of court police's general recording wing, revealed the information on Thursday.

The 9-year-old victim and her mother Josna Begum, the plaintiff of the case, said duri...