Dhaka, March 20 -- A Dhaka court has acquitted eight individuals, including BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar, of charges involving taking Tk 210 million in bribes for giving clean chit to Bashundhara Group Vice Chairman Shafiat Sobhan Sanvir in the murder case of Bashundhara Group Director Humayun Kabir Sabbir

Judge Md Abu Taher of the Dhaka Special Judge's Court cleared them of the allegations on Thursday.

Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, aka Shah Alam, his two sons Shafiat Sobhan and Sadat Sobhan, Abu Sufian, Qazi Salimul Haque Kamal, aka Econo Kamal, and Miah Nur Uddin Apu, former assistant private secretary of Tarique are the other suspects acquitted in the case.

Among the...