Bangladesh's former military president Hussain Muhammad Ershad was acquitted yet another graft cases on Sunday by a Dhaka court as allegations against him could not be established by the government lawyers.

The former military dictator, who ruled the country from March 1982 to 1990, allotted 49 housing plots to different persons, including five ministers, in the capital, allegedly violated the country's provisions while he was in power.

Ershad, Bangladesh's longest serving president, was acquitted of three more cases last month.

Totally 17 graft and arms cases were after his fall in a mass upsurge by the government of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia while she came to power for the first time in 1991.

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge SM Mojibur Rahman handed down the judgment of the case filed in 1992, saying the charge against the military president could not be established.

The military dictator after the verdict told the waiting newsmen that he was acquitted in the normal course, but not for his commitment to join the BNP-led four-party alliance before the national elections in January next year.

Source: Xinhua