The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has rejected two leave to appeal petitions BNP chief Khaleda Zia had filed over a case accusing her of graft in the Zia Orphanage Trust.
Published : 24 Nov 2014, 09:18 AM
A five-member bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain gave the order on Monday.
She had moved the Supreme Court with the petitions after separate pleas challenging the graft charges and her subsequent indictment were rejected by the High Court on Dec 14, 2011 and Apr 23 respectively.
Another petition by Khaleda on the Zia Charitable Trust case, which also accuses her of graft, would come up for hearing at the Appellate Division. It follows the High Court’s decision to reject her plea, challenging the legality of her indictment in the case on Apr 23.
In the two cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, the BNP chairperson has been accused of embezzling more than Tk 50 million when she was the prime minister of Bangladesh.
The cases were at the deposition stage in Dhaka's Third Metropolitan Special Judges Court. Khaleda’s lawyers had deferred the hearing of testimonies several times by citing the leave to appeals.
Judge Basudev Roy had indicted Khaleda in both the cases on March 19.