Why Khaleda’s bail won’t be cancelled: Court

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court directed lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to explain why her bail order in Zia Charitable trust graft case will not be cancelled.

Judge Dr. Md. Akhteruzzaman of Special Judge’s Court-5 passed the order on Sunday and fixed October 7 for hearing both prosecution and defense lawyers’ statements on ‘Defending and Representative’.

The court, set up inside old central jail, also rejected the ‘no-confidence pleas’ filed by two other accused, Dr. Ziaul Islam Munna and Monirul Islam, in Zia Charitable trust case and cancelled Monirul Islam’s bail and ordered to send him jail. Munna’s interim bail was cancelled earlier.

Earlier on September 25, two accused, Dr Ziaul Islam Munna and Monirul Islam Khan, filed ‘no confidence’ pleas against the court for hearing the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.

A total of four people were accused in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case. They are- BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia who is now serving her 5-year jail sentence in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, her the then political secretary Harris Chowdhury, Harris Chowdhury’s the then personal secretary Ziaul Islam Munna and former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka’s personal secretary Monirul Islam khan.

Of them, Harris Chowdhury is absconding.


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