Khaleda given division in jail: Prisons chief

Erasing doubts as to how BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is being treated at jail, Bangladesh’s prisons’ chief says that the former prime minister has been given division facilities.

“We have ensured division facilities for Khaleda Zia,” Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Syed Iftekhar Uddin told The Daily Star this evening.

Highly placed jail sources also told The Daily Star, Khaleda has been allowed a personal aide in the jail.

Earlier in the day, Iftekhar, while talking to reporters at his office room, said that there is no provision of division to a former prime minister according to the jail code.

"Considering privacy of Khaleda Zia, we transferred her to the first floor of the daycare center in the jail last night," the IG Prisons had said.

The former prime minister of Bangladesh was convicted of Tk 2.10 crore graft and sent to jail in what is being understood as a significant verdict on the year of parliamentary election.