UNB, Dhaka :
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court against a High Court order that rejected her two petitions challenging the legality of the Gatco graft case and its inclusion under the Emergency Powers Act.
Khaleda’s lawyer Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan filed the appeal on behalf of the BNP chief. On August 5 last year, a High Court bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur Rob rejected the two writ petitions.
On September 2, 2007, the ACC filed the Gatco graft case against Khaleda, her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and 10 others for causing a loss of Tk 145.64 crore to the national exchequer by allegedly awarding the contract of container handling at the Chittagong Port and the Dhaka’s Inland Container Depot to Gatco.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court against a High Court order that rejected her two petitions challenging the legality of the Gatco graft case and its inclusion under the Emergency Powers Act.
Khaleda’s lawyer Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan filed the appeal on behalf of the BNP chief. On August 5 last year, a High Court bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur Rob rejected the two writ petitions.
On September 2, 2007, the ACC filed the Gatco graft case against Khaleda, her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and 10 others for causing a loss of Tk 145.64 crore to the national exchequer by allegedly awarding the contract of container handling at the Chittagong Port and the Dhaka’s Inland Container Depot to Gatco.
