Staff Reporter :
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday filed a leave to appeal with the Supreme Court for scrapping the trial proceedings of the Barapukuria graft case.
The BNP chief filed the petition challenging the High Court verdict, which cleared the way for lower court to start trial proceedings of the case.
The apex court will later fix a date for hearing the leave to appeal petition.
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon, counsel of Khaleda, submitted the leave to appeal with the apex court seeking postponement of the proceedings in trial court claiming that his client was not involved in the corruption of Barapukuria coal mine.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case with Shahbagh Police Station on February 26, 2008, accusing the then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and 10 others of her cabinet members for taking Tk 159 crore as kickbacks in the Barapukuria coal mine deal.
Responding to a petition filed by Khaleda, HC on October 16, 2008, stayed the case proceedings and issued a rule asking the commission to explain as to why the case should not be quashed.
The Appellate Division later upheld the stay order as well, leaving the corruption case in the freeze. Khaleda, however, managed to secure a permanent bail in the case on January 15, 2012.
The ACC in January last year moved to revive the GATCO corruption case against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, which was stayed by a HC order in 2008.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday filed a leave to appeal with the Supreme Court for scrapping the trial proceedings of the Barapukuria graft case.
The BNP chief filed the petition challenging the High Court verdict, which cleared the way for lower court to start trial proceedings of the case.
The apex court will later fix a date for hearing the leave to appeal petition.
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon, counsel of Khaleda, submitted the leave to appeal with the apex court seeking postponement of the proceedings in trial court claiming that his client was not involved in the corruption of Barapukuria coal mine.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case with Shahbagh Police Station on February 26, 2008, accusing the then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and 10 others of her cabinet members for taking Tk 159 crore as kickbacks in the Barapukuria coal mine deal.
Responding to a petition filed by Khaleda, HC on October 16, 2008, stayed the case proceedings and issued a rule asking the commission to explain as to why the case should not be quashed.
The Appellate Division later upheld the stay order as well, leaving the corruption case in the freeze. Khaleda, however, managed to secure a permanent bail in the case on January 15, 2012.
The ACC in January last year moved to revive the GATCO corruption case against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, which was stayed by a HC order in 2008.
