Court Correspondent :
The Special Court-5 of Dhaka yesterday extended BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s bail till April 5 in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman, Judge of the court passed the order on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the BNP Chairperson was not produced in the court yesterday although strict security measures were taken in the court area on the occasion. It has been learned that Khaleda Zia was not produced before the court due to her sickness.
Earlier on March 13, the same court ordered the prison authorities to produce the BNP leader in the court on March 28 and 29 on the occasion of submission of arguments in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
Earlier, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajal had applied to the court to produce Khaleda Zia before the court. He said, it is not possible to place arguments in the case without the presence of Khaleda Zia in the court. So the court ordered Khaleda Zia to appear before the court on the fixed date.
On August 8, 2010, the ACC filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft case with Tejgaon Model Police Station accusing four persons including Khaleda Zia for misappropriating over Tk 3 crore 15 lakh and 43 thousand that came as grant from a foreign bank for orphans.
On February 8, the Special Court-5 of Dhaka sentenced Khaleda Zia to five years imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. He was then taken to the prison of old Dhaka.
