DHAKA, Jan 20, 2022 (BSS) - The court today fixed March 6 for hearing on 
charge framing in Barapukuria coalmine graft case against BNP Chairperson 
Begum Khaleda Zia and 10 others.

  Judge AHM Ruhul Imran of Dhaka's Special Court no-2 located at Keraniganj 
central Jail fixed the new date responding to the plea of the defence for 
time extension of hearing on charge framing as Khaleda could not appear 
before the court due to her illness today. 

  Earlier, the court fixed January 20 for hearing on charge framing in the 
graft case.

   The other ten accused of the case are -- former commerce minister Altaf 
Hossain, former health and family welfare minister Dr Khondoker Mosharraf 
Hossain, former agriculture minister MK Anwar, former information minister M 
Shamsul Islam, M Sirajul Islam, M Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, Hosaf Group 
chairman Moazzem Hussain, former energy and mineral resources secretary 
Nazrul Islam, former Petrobangla director Muinul Ahsan and former state 
minister for energy and mineral resources AKM Mosharraf Hossain.