Orders on Khaleda Zia’s bail pleas likely Sunday
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Dhaka: The High Court is likely to pass its orders on Sunday on bail petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in three cases.
A bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice JBM Hasan heard the bail pleas in one case, saying they will hear the rest two bail petitions and pass orders on Sunday.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said, ‘The hearing in one case filed for killing people by hurling petrol bombs in Cumilla was concluded while the hearing in remaining two cases were still pending.’
Among the two cases, one was filed in Cumilla on charge of plotting to carry out subversive acts and another in Narail on charge of defamation.
Earlier on May 19, the HC granted permission to Khaleda for filing the bail petitions after her lawyers sought for it.
The Appellate Division earlier on May 18 upheld the High Court order that had granted bail to convicted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
However, the BNP chief was not freed from jail as Khaleda was shown arrested in the cases filed with different police stations in Cumilla, Dhaka, Narail and Panchagarh.
The BNP chairperson is now facing a total of 36 cases.
Eight people were killed and at least 20 others injured when miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a bus at Jogmohanpur in Chouddagram of Cumilla district during the BNP-led alliance’s movement on February 3, 2015.
A covered van was vandalised and torched at Choddogram area on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway on January 25 in 2015.
On December 21, 2015, Khaleda Zia at a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh raised questions about the actual number of Liberation War martyrs saying, ‘There’re controversies over how many were martyred in the Liberation War.’
Reacting to Khaleda’s remark, a defamation case was filed against her with a Narail court on December 14.