The High Court yesterday scrapped the trial court judgement and acquitted all the 47 accused in the case filed over the attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader, Sheikh Hasina, in Ishwardi 30 years ago.

The High Court (HC) accepts three separate appeals filed by 43 convicts in a case over attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Pabna's Ishwardi 25 years ago.

A Pabna court yesterday sentenced nine people to death in a case over the attack on a train carrying the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Ishwardi 25 years ago.