The HC bench of Justice Muhammad Mahbub Ul Islam and Justice Mubina Asaf passed the order.
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Advocate Aminul Islam stood for the petitioner while deputy attorney general Mujibur Rahman represented the state.
On 18 April 2003, Judge Biswanath Mandal of the Satkhira Special Tribunal-3 Biswanath Mandal sentenced four people, including former BNP MP Habib, to life imprisonment in the case.
Later, they filed separate petitions seeking acquittal from the case.
In 2002, then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina’s convoy came under attack when she was returning to Magura after visiting a freedom fighter’s wife in Satkhira’s Kalaroa.
Although Hasina survived the attack, at least 12 people, including Awami League leaders and journalists, were injured, according to the case statement.
Satkhira Chief Judicial Magistrate on February 3, 2021, sentenced former MP Habib and three others to ten years jail in the case. The BNP leader was acquitted in the case while the trial proceeding of other accused in the case was underway.
Meanwhile, in 2023, a court sentenced four people including former MP Habib, to life imprisonment while 44 others to seven years jail under the two cases-one under the Arms Act and another under the Explosive Substances Act.
