Dhaka, June 8 -- A court has dismissed a petition to file a case of "negligence" against five people, including Muhammad Yunus, the former chief advisor to the interim government, and his health advisor Nurjahan Begum, for the deaths of children due to measles.

Kishoreganj-5 MP Mujibur Rahman Iqbal had filed the application in the court of Dhaka's Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam on Monday.

After hearing the plaintiff's petition, the judge dismissed it citing "lack of evidence to accept the case", said the plaintiff's lawyer Salahuddin Laskar.

In addition to Yunus and Nur Jahan, former secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Md Saidur Rahman, former special assistant to the chief advisor Md Sayedur ...