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Muhammad Yunus was on Sunday acquitted in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, three days after he took oath as the head of Bangladesh's interim government, according to a media report...
Judge Md Rabiul Alam of the Special Judge's Court-4 of Dhaka accepted the Anti-Corruption Commission's application which was filed with the court, seeking withdrawal of prosecution of the case, an official of the anti-graft agency was quoted as saying by The Daily Star newspaper...
On August 7, a Dhaka court acquitted Yunus and three top officials of Grameen Telecom in a labour law violation case.. Yunus had been in a protracted row with the Sheikh Hasina government due to obscure reasons while authorities initiated a series of investigations against him after she came to power in 2008...
Meanwhile, Syed Refaat Ahmed was sworn in as Bangladeshs new chief justice on Sunday, a day after Obaidul Hassan stepped down as the top judge following an ultimatum by the protesters demanding a revamp of the judiciary...
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