ACC submits concise statement on appeal against Khaleda’s bail
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today submitted to the Supreme Court a concise statement on an appeal against the High Court (HC) order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a corruption case.
ACC lawyer advocate Khurshid Alam Khan submitted the 28-page concise statement saying that the HC did not consider the gravity of the offence committed by Khaleda, a former prime minister, when granted her bail in the case.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The defence lawyers did not submit any medical certificate although they claimed she was suffering from different diseases, the ACC lawyer said.
The HC granted bail to her on consideration of her old age and social status and considering the short sentence which is not any legal ground for granting bail, the lawyer told The Daily Star.
The HC on March 12 granted her four months' bail on four grounds: a short sentence of five years, health condition, her facing trial, and that the case records have reached the court.
The apex court later stayed the HC’s bail order following the two leave to appeal petitions filed by the ACC and the government on March 15 challenging the HC bail order.
Khaleda’s lawyers supposed to submit the concise statements in two weeks while the government will file the statement in one week.
Khaleda landed in prison on February 8 after she was handed the five-year jail sentence by a Dhaka court for misappropriating a donation fund of the Zia Orphanage Trust.
A concise statement contains the points on which the lawyers place arguments on an appeal petition before a court.
Cumilla arson case: Khaleda’s bail hearing April 10
A Cumilla court today fixed April 10 for hearing a bail petition filed by Khaleda in an arson case filed in 2015.
The 5th Judicial Magistrate Court of MustainBillaset the date this morning, our local correspondent reports quoting Najmul Sadat, a lawyer of Khaleda.
Khaleda was shown arrested in the case on March 13 for instigating the arson attack on a bus on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Cumilla's Chauddagramupazila that left seven passengers dead and 25 to 30 others injured on February 3, 2015.
The law enforcers submitted the charge sheet of the case to a Comilla court accusing Khaleda and 77 BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and activists on March 2 last year.
Khaleda was convicted and jailed for five years in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8. She is now at the old central jail on Nazimuddin Road in Dhaka.
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