Staff Reporter :
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld four High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings of four arson cases filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in 2015.
At the same time, the Appellate Division asked the concerned High Court Bench to dispose of the rules issued in this regard.
A five-member Bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after holding a virtual hearing on four separate petitions filed by the state against the High Court order.
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan and Barrister Badruddoza Badol took part in the hearing on behalf of Khaleda Zia, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the State.
The High Court on April 13, 2017, stayed the trial proceedings of the four arson cases against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
The court also issued rulings asking the government to explain as to why the orders of Dhaka Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1, which had taken into cognizance charges of the four cases against Khaleda for burning buses in February 2015, would not be scrapped.
The Bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah passed the orders after hearing four separate petitions filed by Khaleda challenging the legality of the lower court’s orders.
Later the state counsels filed appeal petitions with the Appellate Division against the High Court orders which came to the cause-list on Monday.
Police filed three arson cases with Darus Salam Police Station on February 3, 2015, February 23, 2015 and March 1, 2015 and another arson case with Jatrabari Police Station on January 23, 2015.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday upheld four High Court orders that stayed the trial proceedings of four arson cases filed against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in 2015.
At the same time, the Appellate Division asked the concerned High Court Bench to dispose of the rules issued in this regard.
A five-member Bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after holding a virtual hearing on four separate petitions filed by the state against the High Court order.
Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan and Barrister Badruddoza Badol took part in the hearing on behalf of Khaleda Zia, while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the State.
The High Court on April 13, 2017, stayed the trial proceedings of the four arson cases against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.
The court also issued rulings asking the government to explain as to why the orders of Dhaka Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1, which had taken into cognizance charges of the four cases against Khaleda for burning buses in February 2015, would not be scrapped.
The Bench of Justice Md Miftah Uddin Choudhury and Justice ANM Bashir Ullah passed the orders after hearing four separate petitions filed by Khaleda challenging the legality of the lower court’s orders.
Later the state counsels filed appeal petitions with the Appellate Division against the High Court orders which came to the cause-list on Monday.
Police filed three arson cases with Darus Salam Police Station on February 3, 2015, February 23, 2015 and March 1, 2015 and another arson case with Jatrabari Police Station on January 23, 2015.
