DHAKA: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court fixed Monday (March 19) to pass necessary order on the petitions against the bail granted by the High Court to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case. 

The petitions were filed by the state and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

A four-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain fixed this date after hearing upon the petitions on Sunday (March 18).

Earlier, the government and the ACC filed petitions with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court order that granted four months interim bail to Khaleda Zia.

On March 12, an HC bench of Justices Enayetur Rahim and Shahidul Karim granted bail for four months to Khaleda Zia.  

On February 8, a Special Court in Dhaka sentenced Khaleda Zia to five years' rigorous imprisonment in the graft case.

The court also jailed her elder son Tarique Rahman, now acting chairman of the BNP, and four others for 10 years.

The Zia Orphanage Trust case was filed by Anti-Corruption Commission in July 2008, accusing the six of misappropriating over Tk 2.1 crore of foreign grant money.

BDST: 1324 HRS, MAR 18, 2018
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