NSW Police have dropped terrorism charges against a NSW University student who was accused of plotting to assassinate Australian politicians.

Detectives arrested Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen, 25, in August — accusing him of writing in a notebook, discovered on-campus at UNSW, about plans to kill former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and his former deputy Julie Bishop.

However, police were forced to release him on bail last month after prosecutors conceded a handwriting expert could not prove he had written the notes in the notebook.

Today, according to the ABC, police are dropping the charge of collecting or making documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts.

It was previously alleged Mr Nizamdeen possessed a blueprint to target several “symbolic” Sydney locations, after officers from NSW’s Joint Counter-Terrorism Team (JCTT) arrested him at Kensington, in Sydney’s southeast in August.

Shortly after he was released last month, the student released a video online proclaiming his innocence.

“I have just been granted bail and am a free man,” he said.

“I have never been more proud of being Sri Lankan after seeing the immense support for me and believing that I’m innocent, which I am, so thank you so much.”

His lawyer Moustafa Khier said shortly after he would seek to have the charges against Mr Nizamdeen dropped completely.

“Bail granted to my client Mohamad Nizamdeen today. Police case is hopeless, as notes in question are not his! We will continue to seek justice until my client is fully exonerated,” he wrote on Twitter.

Nizamdeen spent four weeks in jail after being charged.

He had no criminal record and had worked with NSW Police in 2016 to develop an app to help adapt to life in Australia.

The nephew of a Sri Lankan MP and Sports and Local Government Minister Faiszer Musthapha, Mr Nizamdeen’s family have maintained he was framed since his dramatic arrest.

“He would have had absolutely no reason to engage in such disgusting, hateful crimes to a city which has been extremely opening to him for the past 6 years,” he wrote in a post that was shared by a friend, Mithra De Alwis.

“He has been falsely accused and as justification of having no conclusive evidence their [the police’s] motive is to prolong his stay under custody to simply save themselves.” (news.com.au)