BNP Chief Khaleda Zia gets bail in graft cases

A Dhaka courtroom in these days granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage trust and Zia Charitable trust cases in her presence on the courtroom.Decide Abu Ahmed Jomadar of the particular decide's courtroom-three passed the order after Sanaullah Miah, a information for Khaleda, submitted two separate bail petitions earlier than the courtroom in the two graft instances. The court also granted bail to 2 other accused -- former BNP lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque and businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed.

Later, the court docket adjourned the hearing until may 5, in response to a time petition submitted by using the defence announcing that they want of some essential documents which were seized through the investigation officer of the circumstances from specific areas. The prosecution did not oppose the bail on the grounds that her repute, social and political dignity and age, chief prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol instructed the court docket. Even as passing the order, judge Jomadar said that he has no wish to send the BNP chief to jail on her age floor. If she is located harmless she might be acquitted, the choose mentioned.

Khaleda and two other accused, who bought bail today, ought to show up before the court docket on every scheduled date of the case, the courtroom stated. If she fails to show up before the court, lawyer can file an software to represent her in the courtroom in her absence, it brought. Throughout the hearing, Khaleda used to be allowed to sit down on a chair on the court docket. Staring from her Gulshan workplace, Khaleda, accompanied by BNP vice chairman Selima Rahman and President of BNP females’s entrance Shirin Sultana, entered the court premises in Bakshibazar around 10:33am amid tight security.

The individuals of specific law enforcement groups together with police, speedy motion Battalion, Border Gourd Bangladesh and plainclothes were deployed on the court premises to maintain regulation and order. A verify put up has additionally been hooked up in front of the main entrance of the court.

After she entered the courtroom, a gaggle of leaders and activists of BNP females front attempted to convey out a procession from a avenue close Dhaka clinical institution and sanatorium closer to Bakshibazar court docket but faced police resistance. Later, they took to the street and furnished prayer in order that Khaleda secures bail.

After three months, Khaleda has come out of her workplace at Gulshan-2, the place she used to be staying given that January 3. She may return to her Gulshan house from the court docket. On February 25, the unique judge's court-3 cancelled her bail and issued warrants for her arrest for dodging court listening to on 4 consecutive dates.
Following issuance of the warrants, she misplaced the proper to look after herself in the two circumstances until she surrenders, as the courtroom declared her a fugitive. Throughout a listening to of the cases on March four, judge Abu Ahmed Jomadar stated, "She [Khaleda] can contest the instances if she surrenders earlier than the court docket in future."

If she does so, this will be the first time Khaleda surrenders to a court in her political profession of more than three many years. From her Gulshan place of job, Khaleda used to be giving instructional materials to her social gathering leaders on the anti-executive agitation. The BNP-led alliance enforced a non-stop nationwide blockade from January 6, and found a sequence of shutdowns to force the federal government to name contemporary polls.

In the meantime, police final evening allowed BNP men to enter the party's imperative place of job in Nayapaltan after three months.

On Friday night, law enforcers, who had kept the BNP central place of work locked because January three, had been withdrawn from in front of it.

They have been stationed there for more than three months to avert BNP men from getting into the workplace. The development got here after the BNP made predominant alterations in its strategy. The social gathering shifted its focus to city manufacturer elections from road agitation. BNP-backed aspirants filed nomination papers to contest mayoral polls in the three city corporations slated for April 28. When Khaleda last appeared earlier than the courtroom on December 24, Bangladesh Chhatra League activists swooped on BNP guys, who had gathered within the Bakshibazar area.

THE cases
in keeping with the charge sheet of the Zia Orphanage case, Khaleda, Tarique and 4 others embezzled Tk 2.1 crore with the aid of forming the charity that exists only on paper.
The announcement of the opposite case say the BNP chief and three others abused energy to acquire Tk 6.19 crore for Zia Charitable trust for the period of the BNP-led executive's tenure between 1991 and 1996. The Anti-Corruption commission filed both the instances. Khaleda has been irregular in attending case court cases. She has kept away from appearing earlier than the court docket on 56 out of 63 dates for hearing in the two instances.

Khaleda Zia returns dwelling after three months

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who had been staying at her Gulshan administrative center for the reason that January, has sooner or later back house after three months.
She headed back to her Gulshan house from a Dhaka court after securing bail in two corruption circumstances on Sunday.Khaleda, who hardly ever made public appearances in up to date months, appeared to be keeping well. The gate of the condominium was once locked instantly after her motorcade entered, leaving a curious press corps external.