Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday deferred till July 8 the hearing on a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking stay on the trial proceedings against her in an arson case filed under the Special Powers Act in Cumilla in 2015.
The bench of Justice A K M Asaduzzaman and Justice S M Mozibur Rahman was scheduled
today to hear the petition yesterday. But the judges fixed July 8 for hearing the petition after Attorney General Mahbubey Alam sought time for taking preparation for placing arguments, Deputy Attorney General Dr Md Bashir Ullah said.
Seven people were killed and 25-26 others injured after a bus was torched in Cumilla’s Chouddagram upazila on February 2 in 2015.
The following day, police lodged two cases— one for murder and another under the Special Powers Act, 1974— with Chouddagram Police Station in this connection.
On May 28 this year, the HC granted bail to Khaleda Zia for six months in the murder case.
Later, on July 2, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed the HC order of bail and asked the HC to hear and dispose of the rule issued over her permanent bail in this case within four weeks.
The HC on June 11 directed the trial court in Cumilla to expeditiously hear and dispose the bail petition of Khaleda in the arson case filed under the Special Powers Act. The SC also upheld the HC order.
Khaleda, who stands accused in 34 cases, submitted the petition to the HC in May this year for scraping the trial proceedings in the arson case filed under the Special Powers Act in Cumilla in 2015.
Khaleda landed in jail on February 8 this year after a Dhaka court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust case.
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday deferred till July 8 the hearing on a petition filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking stay on the trial proceedings against her in an arson case filed under the Special Powers Act in Cumilla in 2015.
The bench of Justice A K M Asaduzzaman and Justice S M Mozibur Rahman was scheduled
today to hear the petition yesterday. But the judges fixed July 8 for hearing the petition after Attorney General Mahbubey Alam sought time for taking preparation for placing arguments, Deputy Attorney General Dr Md Bashir Ullah said.
Seven people were killed and 25-26 others injured after a bus was torched in Cumilla’s Chouddagram upazila on February 2 in 2015.
The following day, police lodged two cases— one for murder and another under the Special Powers Act, 1974— with Chouddagram Police Station in this connection.
On May 28 this year, the HC granted bail to Khaleda Zia for six months in the murder case.
Later, on July 2, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed the HC order of bail and asked the HC to hear and dispose of the rule issued over her permanent bail in this case within four weeks.
The HC on June 11 directed the trial court in Cumilla to expeditiously hear and dispose the bail petition of Khaleda in the arson case filed under the Special Powers Act. The SC also upheld the HC order.
Khaleda, who stands accused in 34 cases, submitted the petition to the HC in May this year for scraping the trial proceedings in the arson case filed under the Special Powers Act in Cumilla in 2015.
Khaleda landed in jail on February 8 this year after a Dhaka court sentenced her to five years’ imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust case.
