Khaleda skips graft cases hearing again on security ground
Citing security reasons again, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia refrained from appearing before a court which is holding her trial for raising fund illegally for two charities and embezzling the amount.
Earlier on September 22, the BNP chief skipped court on the same ground.
Khaleda appeared before the court for the last time on September 17.
The Anti-Corruption Commission had filed the cases in 2008 and 2011. According to the charge sheet in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, Khaleda, Tarique and four others embezzled Tk 2.1 crore by forming the charity that exists only on paper.
The court on September 22 opened the trial of Khaleda, her elder son Tarique Rahman and seven others in the two cases on charges of raising fund illegally for two charities and embezzling the amount.
Meanwhile, the court today adjourned the cases proceedings till October 26 after the lawyers for Khaleda submitted four separate petitions before it seeking its adjournment.
The court also asked Khaleda and four others now on bail to appear before it on the next scheduled date.
Two of the petitions filed for Khaleda’s nonappearance before the court due to her security reasons while the two others for adjournment of court proceedings of the cases, Advocate Mosleh Uddin Jasim, one of the counsels for Khaleda, told The Daily Star.
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