Khaleda to seek bail in graft cases tomorrow

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear tomorrow before a makeshift court in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar to seek bail in connection with Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.

“She will appear before the court around 11:00am tomorrow,” advocate Sanaullah Mia, one of Khaleda’s lawyers, told The Daily Star today.

Tomorrow, the court will hear arguments in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case while Khaleda will place her self-defence statements in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. 

Earlier on November 30, the same court issued arrest warrant against Khaleda, a former prime minister, after cancelling her ad-interim bail as she failed to appear before it in time.

On October 19, the makeshift court in Bakshibazar granted the BNP chief the ad-interim bail after she surrendered before it and sought bail.

On August 8, 2011, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft case with Tejgaon Police Station, against four, including Khaleda, of raising funds for the trust from unknown sources through abuse of power.

ACC filed Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on July 3, 2008, with Ramna Police Station, accusing Khaleda, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others for misappropriating over Tk 2.10 crore that was received as grants for orphans via a foreign bank.