SC clears way for running trial against Khaleda
The Supreme Court today cleared the way for a lower court to continue the trial proceedings against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case by rejecting her two appeals.
The Appellate Division dismissed the appeals filed challenging the two High Court decisions regarding acceptance of charges and charge framing in the case.
One of the two leave to appeal petitions was filed in 2012 against an HC verdict that rejected a petition against a lower court order, which accepted charges against Khaleda in the case.
Khaleda filed another petition with the apex court on July 7 this year challenging another HC verdict that upheld a lower court's order framing charges against her over the same allegation.
A five-member bench of the apex court headed by chief justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the order as it concluded hearing the appeal on Sunday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission in 2009 filed the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on charge of embezzling over Tk 2.1 crore by forming a “fake” trust which only exists on papers and filed the other case in 2011 on charge of abusing power during setting up the charitable trust.
The apex court today also fixed tomorrow for passing an order on another appeal filed by Khaleda against a HC verdict that upheld the charge framing order by the lower court in Zia Charitable Trust Corruption case.
HEARING ADJOURNED
A Dhaka court today adjourned until December 1 recording the deposition of the witnesses in the graft cases.
Judge Basudev Roy of the Special Judge Court-3 passed the order after Taherul Islam Towhid, a counsel for Khaleda, submitted petitions seeking a stay on the trial proceedings in the cases until the SC publishes full copy of its rejection orders against BNP chief’s appeals.
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