Dhaka, May 27 -- Jai Jai Din Editor Shafik Rehman has been acquitted in a case over an alleged plot to abduct and murder Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The decision overturns the seven-year jail sentence he was handed in the case.

Dhaka Additional Metropolitan Sessions Cour Judge Tariq Ezaz delivered the verdict on Tuesday, according to Shafik's lawyer Syed Zainul Abedin Mezbah.

Shafik was in court for the verdict and it was read out in front of him.

Zainul had previously argued at a court hearing: "This so-called case is over a plot to abduct and kill Hasina's son Joy. The victim did not file the case himself. Police filed it on their own initiative. The defendant is a 90-year-old who was taken into ...