DHAKA, Feb 19, 2020 (BSS) – The High Court today set February 23 for
holding hearing on a fresh bail plea filed by BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda
Zia in Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
A High Court division bench comprising Justice Obaidul Hassan and
Justice AKM Zahirul Huq set the date as the matter was mentioned before the
court today.
Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 on October 29, 2018, sentenced BNP
chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and three others to seven-year imprisonment
each in Zia Charitable Trust graft case. The court also fined them Taka 10
lakh each, in default, to suffer six months more in jail.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case with capital’s
Tejgaon Police Station on August 8, 2010, for embezzling Taka 3.15 crore
while police on January 16, 2012, filed charge sheet against four including
the ex-premier.
The other convicts are Khaleda’s former political secretary Haris
Chowdhury, the then BIWTA director Ziaul Islam Munna and Monirul Islam Khan,
former personal secretary of former Dhaka city mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka.
The court framed charges against Khaleda and others in the case on March
19, 2014.