Staff Reporter :
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed today (Tuesday) to pass an order on two petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia seeking review of its May 16 order that directed the High Court to hear and disposed of her appeal in Zia Orphanage Trust case by July 31.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain
fixed the date for passing the order after hearing the review petitions.
Advocate A J Mohammad Ali argued for Khaleda Zia, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan appeared for the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) respectively.
The Appellate Division on May 16 upheld the HC order that granted four-month bail to Khaleda in Zia Orphanage Trust case, in which she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
The same day, the apex court ordered the HC bench led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim to hear and dispose of her appeal challenging the lower court verdict on her by July 31. Khaleda Zia sought review of this portion of the order.
On February 8, the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka sentenced Khaleda to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the graft case.
The court also jailed her elder son Tarique Rahman, now the Acting Chairman of BNP, and four others for 10 years and fined them Tk 2.1 crore, saying all the six convicts would have to pay the fine in equal amounts.
The four other convicts are Qazi Saleemul Huq, an ex-BNP MP from Magura; Sharfuddin Ahmed, a businessman; Mominur Rahman, a cousin of Tarique; and Kamal Uddin Siddique, former Principal Secretary.
Of them, Mominur and Kamal are on the run while Salimul and Sharfuddin were sent to jail on February 8. The sentence of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender.
The ACC filed the case with Ramna police in July 2008, accusing the six of misappropriating over Tk 2.1 crore that came from a foreign bank as grants for orphans.
The Supreme Court on Monday fixed today (Tuesday) to pass an order on two petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia seeking review of its May 16 order that directed the High Court to hear and disposed of her appeal in Zia Orphanage Trust case by July 31.
A four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain
fixed the date for passing the order after hearing the review petitions.
Advocate A J Mohammad Ali argued for Khaleda Zia, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam and Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan appeared for the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) respectively.
The Appellate Division on May 16 upheld the HC order that granted four-month bail to Khaleda in Zia Orphanage Trust case, in which she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
The same day, the apex court ordered the HC bench led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim to hear and dispose of her appeal challenging the lower court verdict on her by July 31. Khaleda Zia sought review of this portion of the order.
On February 8, the Special Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka sentenced Khaleda to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the graft case.
The court also jailed her elder son Tarique Rahman, now the Acting Chairman of BNP, and four others for 10 years and fined them Tk 2.1 crore, saying all the six convicts would have to pay the fine in equal amounts.
The four other convicts are Qazi Saleemul Huq, an ex-BNP MP from Magura; Sharfuddin Ahmed, a businessman; Mominur Rahman, a cousin of Tarique; and Kamal Uddin Siddique, former Principal Secretary.
Of them, Mominur and Kamal are on the run while Salimul and Sharfuddin were sent to jail on February 8. The sentence of the fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender.
The ACC filed the case with Ramna police in July 2008, accusing the six of misappropriating over Tk 2.1 crore that came from a foreign bank as grants for orphans.
