The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till July 24 hearing of two petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia seeking stay on a High Court verdict that rejected her two writ petitions challenging the appointment of a judge who indicted her in two corruption cases.
Bashudev Roy, judge of the Special Judge's Court-3 of Dhaka, on March 19 framed charges against Khaleda, her son Tarique Rahman and seven others in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust corruption cases filed by the Anti Corruption Commission.
Yesterday, a five-member bench of Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain passed the adjournment order after Khaleda's lawyer AJ Mohammad Ali moved a time prayer before it.
The lawyer said they have not got the certified copy of the HC verdict that on June 19 rejected two writ petitions filed by Khaleda challenging the appointment of judge Bashudev Roy.
ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan opposed the time prayer of Mohammad Ali and said Khaleda Zia's lawyers have got adjournment orders for 32 times from the lower court in proceeding of the two cases on the ground that the matters are pending with the apex court.
If any further delay takes place in proceeding with the cases, a bad conception will be created among the people about the ACC, Khurshid told the court.
Mohammad Ali told the court that it should not care for such conception mentioned by the ACC lawyer.
Then, Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, a member of the apex court bench, asked Ali not to dictate this court about taking its decision.     
Khaleda's four petitions---two petitions filed against another HC verdict passed on April 23 and two revision petitions against the indictment order against her and eight others--will be heard by the SC on July 24.
Khaleda filed the four petitions with the SC on July 7.