Stay on Khaleda’s bail in 2 Cumilla cases: Hearing begins

Staff Correspondent: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court have started hearing on a chamber court order that has stayed a High Court (HC) order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases filed in Cumilla.
 

An appeal bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain started to hear on Thursday morning.

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the state and Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and AJ Mohammad stood for Khaleda Zia.

Earlier, the chamber court stayed a High Court (HC) order that had granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in two cases filed in Cumilla.

The chamber judge of the Appellate Division Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order after hearing on a petition filed by the state challenging the HC order, and sent the appeal to the regular Appellate Division bench fixing Thursday (May 31) for the next hearing.

On Monday, the High Court granted six-month interim bail to the BNP Chairperson in the two cases and rejected the bail petition in a defamation case filed in Narail.

Soon after the HC order, the government filed a petition with the Appellate Division challenging it.

Of the cases, two were filed in Cumilla on charge of plotting to carry out subversive acts and another in Narail on defamation charges.


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