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High Court Grants Khaleda Zia Four Month Interim Bail From Graft Case

High Court grants Khaleda Zia four month interim bail from graft case that is set to convey a request today on the safeguard appeal to recorded by BNP Administrator Khaleda Zia regarding the Zia Halfway house Trust join case in which she was imprisoned for a long time.

The seat of Equity M Enayetur Rahim and Equity Shahidul Karim would pass the request as the case record has come to the HC area worried from the trial court yesterday according to a request issued on February 22, Lawyer General Mahbubey Alam revealed to The Every day Star.

Prior early in the day yesterday, the HC judges conceded till 2:00pm today to pass vital request with respect to the safeguard appeal, as the case record did not come to the HC by at that point.

The judges of the seat were booked to pass a request yesterday on this issue.

Be that as it may, the seat said the 15-day time given to the lower court for sending the case record would terminate yesterday. Along these lines, the seat would sit back and watch whether the case record came to in time, the HC said.

The seat said this after Khaleda’s legal counselor Backer Zainul Abedin appealed to it to pass a request on the safeguard request, saying the HC has the purview to pass the request even without the case record.

In any case, the authorities worried of the lower court conveyed the 5,373-page case records to the criminal interest segment of the HC around 1:00pm.

Backer Sagir Hossain Leon, a legal advisor for Khaleda, disclosed to The Every day Star the authorities of the criminal interest segment would now look at the case archives and deliver those to the HC seat alongside an examination report for a request.

Prior on Walk 8, the HC settled yesterday to pass a vital request with respect to the safeguard appeal.

The HC seat on February 25 heard the appeal to and said it would pass a request on it in the wake of accepting the case records.

On February 8, the Uncommon Judge’s Court-5 of Dhaka condemned Khaleda to five years’ thorough detainment subsequent to discovering her blameworthy in the unite case.

The court additionally imprisoned her senior child Tarique Rahman, now the acting administrator of BNP, and four others for a long time and fined them Tk 2.1 crore, saying all the six convicts would need to pay the fine in square with sums.

The Counter Debasement Commission documented the case with Ramna police in July 2008, blaming the six for abusing over Tk 2.1 crore that originated from a remote bank as stipends for vagrants.

In the interim, Wellbeing and Family Welfare Pastor Mohammed Nasim said yesterday the administration needs BNP Director Khaleda Zia to be liberated through court orders.

He likewise trusted that the BNP alongside its boss would take part in the up and coming parliamentary decision, anticipated that would be held towards the finish of this current year.