BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may appear before a special court in Dhaka on Thursday to attend the hearing on the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.
“Khaleda Zia is respectful to law, and she’s likely to appear before the court on Thursday,” her counsel Sanaullah Mia said.
Khaleda is scheduled to attend her Gulshan office on Wednesday night where she will decide about her court appearance in consultation with her lawyers, said her media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.
Earlier on June 18, the Special Judge’s Court-3, set up on the playground of Govt Alia Madrasah in the capital’s Bakshibazar, adjourned till July 23 the hearing on the two graft cases against Khaleda in her presence.
On August 8, 2011, the ACC filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft case with Tejgaon Police Station accusing four people, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing power in raising funds for the trust from unknown sources.
ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid, also an investigation officer of the case, pressed charges against the accused on January 16, 2012.
Besides, the ACC filed the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on July 3, 2008 with Ramna Police Station accusing Khaleda Zia, her eldest son Tarique Rahman, now living in the UK after securing bail, and four others for misappropriating over Tk 2.10 crore which came as grants from a foreign bank for orphans.
On August 5, 2010, Harunur Rashid submitted a charge-sheet to the court in the case against six people, including BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Source: Prothom Alo
