Dhaka, Sept. 4 -- The Supreme Court today acquitted BNP leadersIqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and Mir Mohammad Helaluddinof charges in separate graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission(ACC).

A six-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Syed RefaatAhmed passed the orders accepting criminal appeals and cancelling the HighCourt (HC) sentences against the convicts.

Senior Advocates Zainul Abedin, Md Ruhul Quddus Kazal and Ragib RoufChowdhury argued for the defence while Advocate Shahin Ahmed represented theACC.

The ACC filed a case on March 6, 2007, against former state minister and BNPvice-chairman Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and his son, assistant organisingsecretary of the party, Mir Mohammad H...