Staff Reporter :
The filing of the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal against the judgement in Zia Charitable Trust case has been delayed as her lawyers are yet to receive the certified copy thereof.
“We applied for the certified copy, but we are yet to get it,” Advocate Zainul Abedin, a lawyer for Khaleda Zia, told the reporters on Friday. “We will file the appeal after we receive it.”
He said, the lower court is now preparing the certified copy of the verdict.
Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan said, it is usual for a court to take some time to release the certified copy of a judgement.
A special court in Dhaka on October 29 convicted Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust case and sentenced her to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in her absence.
The court also sentenced Harris Chowdhury, his Assistant Personal Secretary Ziaul Haq Munna and Monirul Islam Khan the same jail term in the case.
Khaleda and three others were also fined Tk 10 lakh each and in case of default, they will have to spend six months more in jail.
The court also asked the authorities concerned to confiscate the 42 kathas of land of the Trust in favour of the government.
According to the case statement, the former Prime Minister and three others abused their power and raised funds for establishing Zia Charitable Trust from unknown sources.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the Zia Charitable Trust case against Khaleda and three others with Tejgaon Police Station in August, 2011.
The former Prime Minister was sentenced to serve five years in jail on February 8 in the Zia Orphanage Trust case. She was sent to prison the same day.
The filing of the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal against the judgement in Zia Charitable Trust case has been delayed as her lawyers are yet to receive the certified copy thereof.
“We applied for the certified copy, but we are yet to get it,” Advocate Zainul Abedin, a lawyer for Khaleda Zia, told the reporters on Friday. “We will file the appeal after we receive it.”
He said, the lower court is now preparing the certified copy of the verdict.
Anti-Corruption Commission’s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan said, it is usual for a court to take some time to release the certified copy of a judgement.
A special court in Dhaka on October 29 convicted Khaleda Zia in Zia Charitable Trust case and sentenced her to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in her absence.
The court also sentenced Harris Chowdhury, his Assistant Personal Secretary Ziaul Haq Munna and Monirul Islam Khan the same jail term in the case.
Khaleda and three others were also fined Tk 10 lakh each and in case of default, they will have to spend six months more in jail.
The court also asked the authorities concerned to confiscate the 42 kathas of land of the Trust in favour of the government.
According to the case statement, the former Prime Minister and three others abused their power and raised funds for establishing Zia Charitable Trust from unknown sources.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the Zia Charitable Trust case against Khaleda and three others with Tejgaon Police Station in August, 2011.
The former Prime Minister was sentenced to serve five years in jail on February 8 in the Zia Orphanage Trust case. She was sent to prison the same day.
