Staff Reporter :
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday extended till October 31 for the High Court to hear and dispose of the appeal petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust case.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after hearing two separate petitions filed by Khaleda Zia seeking review.
On May 16, the Appellate Division upheld the HC order that granted
four-month bail to Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust case in which she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
The same day, the apex court ordered the HC bench led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim to hear and dispose of her appeal challenging the lower court verdict on her by July 31.
Now, the HC bench will have to finish hearing and dispose of the appeal of Khaleda Zia by October 31 as per the Supreme Court order, Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told reporters.
He said both the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court will go for an annual vacation on August 15 and the court will reopen on October 1.
On February 8, the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka sentenced Khaleda Zia to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the graft case.
The court also jailed her elder son Tarique Rahman, now the Acting Chairman of BNP, and four others for 10 years and fined them Tk 2.1 crore, saying all the six convicts would have to pay the fine in equal amounts.
The four other convicts are Qazi Saleemul Huq, an ex-BNP MP from Magura; Sharfuddin Ahmed, a businessman; Mominur Rahman, a cousin of Tarique; and Kamal Uddin Siddique, former Principal Secretary.
Of them, Mominur and Kamal are on the run while Salimul and Sharfuddin were sent to jail on February 8. The sentence of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday extended till October 31 for the High Court to hear and dispose of the appeal petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust case.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after hearing two separate petitions filed by Khaleda Zia seeking review.
On May 16, the Appellate Division upheld the HC order that granted
four-month bail to Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust case in which she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
The same day, the apex court ordered the HC bench led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim to hear and dispose of her appeal challenging the lower court verdict on her by July 31.
Now, the HC bench will have to finish hearing and dispose of the appeal of Khaleda Zia by October 31 as per the Supreme Court order, Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told reporters.
He said both the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court will go for an annual vacation on August 15 and the court will reopen on October 1.
On February 8, the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka sentenced Khaleda Zia to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the graft case.
The court also jailed her elder son Tarique Rahman, now the Acting Chairman of BNP, and four others for 10 years and fined them Tk 2.1 crore, saying all the six convicts would have to pay the fine in equal amounts.
The four other convicts are Qazi Saleemul Huq, an ex-BNP MP from Magura; Sharfuddin Ahmed, a businessman; Mominur Rahman, a cousin of Tarique; and Kamal Uddin Siddique, former Principal Secretary.
Of them, Mominur and Kamal are on the run while Salimul and Sharfuddin were sent to jail on February 8. The sentence of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender.
