KUALA LUMPUR: Eight men including Gadek assemblyman G. Saminathan were yesterday acquitted and discharged in separate high courts here on charges related to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group.

Justices Datuk Muhammad Jamil Hussin and Collin Lawrence Sequerah, as well as judicial commissioners Datuk Ahmad Shahrir Mohd Salleh and Datuk Aslam Zainuddin made the ruling after deputy public prosecutors informed that Attorney General had instructed to discontinue proceedings against all the accused, in accordance with Section 254 (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code.