HC to hear plea on inadequacy of Khaleda’s penalty tomorrow
The High Court is set tomorrow to hold hearing on a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission challenging what it said inadequate sentence handed by the lower court to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.
The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim today fixed tomorrow for hearing the petition, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
A Dhaka court sentenced Khaleda Zia to five years’ imprisonment in the case on February 8.
The ACC filed the revision petition with the HC challenging the trial court verdict on Khaleda Zia in this case.
The commission said in the petition that the five others accused of the same case have been convicted and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in the same case.
But, the lower court sentenced Khaleda Zia, who is the principle accused of the case, to five years’ imprisonment which is inadequate, the ACC said in the petition.
The commission in the petition prayed the HC to enhance the sentence of Khaleda in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.
ACC lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan today placed the petition before the HC for its hearing.
On February 8, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was handed a five-year rigorous imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.
Her eldest son and BNP’s Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and four others were also given 10 years’ imprisonment in the case and a fine of Tk 2.10 crore each in the politically significant case ahead of the parliamentary election.
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