Dhaka, June 10 -- A Dhaka court has acquitted cricketer Nasir Hossain and his wife Tamima Sultana Tammi in a case over allegedly marrying before Tamima legally dissolving her previous marriage.

Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Jashita Islam delivered the verdict in the widely-discussed case on Wednesday.

Tamima's ex-husband Rakib Hossain filed the case against them, alleging adultery. The court has acquitted the couple more than four years after the trial began.

According to the case documents, Tamima married Rakib Hasan on Feb 26, 2011. The couple have an 8-year-old daughter.

The complaint alleges that while that marriage remained legally valid, Tamima married Nasir on Feb 14, 2020.

Rakib became aware of the marriage a...