Khaleda seeks HC stay on arrest warrants

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today filed two separate petitions with the High Court seeking stay on arrest warrants against her in two corruption cases.

The latest petitions have been submitted as supplementary to her two other petitions she had filed expressing no-confidence in a trial court judge, who is dealing with Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.

The petitions will be included in the hearing list of the HC on Thursday, AKM Ehsanur Rahman, a counsel for Khaleda, told The Daily Star this afternoon.

Citing from the petitions, he said the lower court has issued the arrest warrants against Khaleda on February 25 although her “no-confidence” related petitions, which were filed on January 28, were pending with the HC.

The arrest orders are illegal and unethical, he added.

The HC on March 2 fixed March 5 for inclusion in its hearing list two petitions of the BNP chief expressing no-confidence in Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the Special Judge Court-3 who issued the arrest warrants.

In the same petitions, Khaleda prayed to the HC to direct the government to transfer the corruption cases to the court of another judge.