Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court on Sunday extended the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia until Monday in Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
Judge Md Akhteruzzaman of the Special Judge Court-5 passed the order after Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Barrister Moudud Ahmed submitted a petition seeking an extension of her bail.
The same court on February 1 gave Khaleda Zia ad-interim bail till Sunday and asked her to appear before it the same day.
Since she was earlier convicted in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case and now in jail, she cannot appear before it.
On the other hand, Public Prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol moved a petition for issuing production warrant action against Khaleda Zia.
It the court passed the production warrant and the jail authorities produce her before it today (Monday), Khaleda can seek bail in the case, Kajol said.
But the court is yet to give any order in this regard.
The anti-graft body filed the Zia charitable corruption case in August 2011 with Tejgaon Police Station accusing four persons, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing power to raise funds for the trust from unknown sources.
The three other accused are: Harris Chowdhury, political secretary of the then prime minister Khaleda Zia; Ziaul Islam Munna, assistant private secretary (APS) to Harris; and Monirul Islam Khan, APS of former Dhaka city mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
