Dhaka: The High Court (HC) will hold hearing on Thursday on an appeal filed by Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad challenging his jail sentence in a 26-year-old graft case.

A High Court division bench comprising Justice Md Ruhul Quddus and Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty today set the date for hearing the former President's appeal. 

The court will also hear two appeals of the state, pleading to increase his jail term from three-year.

"The three separate appeals were filed following a single order. So we need to hear the three appeals concurrently," the High Court had said earlier. 

The now-defunct Anti-Corruption Bureau on January 8, 1991, filed the case against the former president for not depositing to state exchequer the gifts he had received as the head of state. The graft body had accused him of embezzling more than Taka 1.90 crore.

A trial court had sentenced Ershad to three-year imprisonment in the case, making the JP chairman file an appeal with the High Court against the verdict.