Court Correspondent :
The Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka yesterday directed lawyers of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to explain as to why her bail order in Zia Charitable Trust graft case should not be cancelled.
Judge Dr. Md. Akhteruzzaman of the court passed the order on Sunday and fixed October 7 for hearing both prosecution and defense lawyers. The court also fixed the same date for hearing arguments.
The court, set up inside old central jail, also rejected
The Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka yesterday directed lawyers of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to explain as to why her bail order in Zia Charitable Trust graft case should not be cancelled.
Judge Dr. Md. Akhteruzzaman of the court passed the order on Sunday and fixed October 7 for hearing both prosecution and defense lawyers. The court also fixed the same date for hearing arguments.
The court, set up inside old central jail, also rejected
the ‘no-confidence pleas’ filed by two other accused Dr. Ziaul Islam Munna and Monirul Islam in Zia Charitable Trust case and cancelled Monirul Islam’s bail and ordered to send him to the jail. Munna’s interim bail was earlier cancelled.
Earlier on September 25, two accused Dr Ziaul Islam Munna and Monirul Islam Khan filed ‘no confidence’ pleas against the court for hearing the Zia Charitable Trust graft case. The court also fixed the same date for hearing arguments.
The BNP Chairperson is now in the prison after she was sentenced to a five-year imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case since February 8 while her son Tarique Rahman, now acting BNP Chairman and three others were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment each.
