DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman, and 48 others, overturning their verdicts in a deadly 2004 grenade attack on a political rally. Rahman serves as the acting chairperson of Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party while in self-exile in London, and he could become Bangladesh’s next leader if his party is voted into power. A court sentenced 19 of them to death while Rahman got life in prison, with Zia’s party accusing the ruling of being politically motivated. Zia, who ruled the country as prime minister from 2001 to 2006, and Hasina are the country’s most powerful politicians and longtime rivals. Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, brother of one of the people acquitted, speaking at the Bangladesh High Court in Dhaka on Sunday.

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