Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Thursday evening recalled its order passed in the morning granting permanent bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a defamation case.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique and Justice ASM Abdul Mobin passed the order after holding hearing on a rule issued over granting bail to Khaleda.
The case was filed on charge of making ‘derogatory remarks’ about the number of Liberation War martyrs and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a Narail court.
The court will hear the rule issued over her bail in the case in April, said concerned state counsel and Deputy Attorney General Samira Tarannum Rabeya.
Barrister Kayser Kamal who appeared in the court for the BNP chief said in the yesterday (Thursday) morning that the court granted permanent bail to Khaleda in the case. But she could not be released
from jail following the order as she was convicted in two other cases, added the lawyer.
But in the evening Samira Tarannum Rabeya said the High Court later recalled verbally the order granting permanent bail to Khaleda Zia in the case after considering a prayer placed by the state. The court will hear the rule one week after the vacation (to be finished on March 29), she added.
The High Court on August 13, 2018, granted a six-month bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the case and also issued the rule asking the government to explain as to why she could not be granted permanent bail. Later on, the HC several times extended ad interim bail in this case.
On December 21, 2015, Khaleda at a discussion in the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in Dhaka raised questions about the actual number of Liberation War martyrs saying, “There are controversies as to how many freedom fighters were martyred in the Liberation War. There are also many books and documents on the controversies.”
Reacting over the Khaleda’s remarks, Raihan Farooque Imam of Naragati in Narail filed a case with the Cognizance Court on December 24, 2015.
A Narail court rejected her bail petition in the case on August 5, 2018. Then she moved the High Court on August 9 and after hearing the court granted her bail for six months on August 13, 2018.
Advocate A J Mohammad Ali also took part in the hearing on behalf of Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda Zia landed in jail on February 8, 2018, after a Dhaka court sentenced her to five years imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust case. The High Court on October 30 of the same year enhanced the punishment of Khaleda to 10 years imprisonment in this case.
The High Court on Thursday evening recalled its order passed in the morning granting permanent bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a defamation case.
The High Court bench of Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique and Justice ASM Abdul Mobin passed the order after holding hearing on a rule issued over granting bail to Khaleda.
The case was filed on charge of making ‘derogatory remarks’ about the number of Liberation War martyrs and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a Narail court.
The court will hear the rule issued over her bail in the case in April, said concerned state counsel and Deputy Attorney General Samira Tarannum Rabeya.
Barrister Kayser Kamal who appeared in the court for the BNP chief said in the yesterday (Thursday) morning that the court granted permanent bail to Khaleda in the case. But she could not be released
from jail following the order as she was convicted in two other cases, added the lawyer.
But in the evening Samira Tarannum Rabeya said the High Court later recalled verbally the order granting permanent bail to Khaleda Zia in the case after considering a prayer placed by the state. The court will hear the rule one week after the vacation (to be finished on March 29), she added.
The High Court on August 13, 2018, granted a six-month bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the case and also issued the rule asking the government to explain as to why she could not be granted permanent bail. Later on, the HC several times extended ad interim bail in this case.
On December 21, 2015, Khaleda at a discussion in the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in Dhaka raised questions about the actual number of Liberation War martyrs saying, “There are controversies as to how many freedom fighters were martyred in the Liberation War. There are also many books and documents on the controversies.”
Reacting over the Khaleda’s remarks, Raihan Farooque Imam of Naragati in Narail filed a case with the Cognizance Court on December 24, 2015.
A Narail court rejected her bail petition in the case on August 5, 2018. Then she moved the High Court on August 9 and after hearing the court granted her bail for six months on August 13, 2018.
Advocate A J Mohammad Ali also took part in the hearing on behalf of Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda Zia landed in jail on February 8, 2018, after a Dhaka court sentenced her to five years imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust case. The High Court on October 30 of the same year enhanced the punishment of Khaleda to 10 years imprisonment in this case.
