A court in Laxmipur today acquitted former acting civil surgeon Salah Uddin Sharif, who was sent to jail through a mobile court following scuffle with Additional Deputy Commissioner Sheikh Murshidul Islam on Monday.

Laxmipur Additional District Magistrate M Iqbal Hossain passed the order, reports our Noakhali correspondent.

Yesterday, another Laxmipur court granted bail to physician Salah Uddin.

Meanwhile, the High Court yesterday summoned the ADC and Executive Magistrate Nuruzzaman over the incident and asked them to appear before it on December 13. The HC order came following a writ petition filed by a SC lawyer on the basis of The Daily Star report on the incident.

A mobile court conducted by Executive Magistrate Nuruzzaman sent Salahuddin to three months in jail after a brawl between Salahuddin and Murshidul on Monday.

Witnesses and officials said ADC Sheikh Murshidul Islam and former acting civil surgeon Salahuddin Sharif engaged in a noisy argument at Kakoli Kindergarten School in the town, where they went to pick up their son and grandson Monday morning.

The argument started over why one of them did not let the other pass through the narrow entrance of the school first. They engaged in a scuffle at some point in the course of the incident.