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Rule on Khaleda plea over legality of judge’s appointment on Sept 14
The Supreme Court has concluded the hearing of a petition filed by BNP chief Khaleda Zia regarding the legality of a judge's appointment who indicted her in two graft cases.
Published : 11 Sept 2014, 06:31 AM
Updated : 11 Sept 2014, 06:31 AM
The five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justci Md Muzammel Hossain has fixed Sept 14 to issue a rule .
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam represented the state on Thursday's hearing while AJ Mohammad Ali stood for the BNP chairperson.
On Mar 19, the court of Dhaka's Third Metropolitan Sessions Judge Basudeb Roy framed charges against eight including Khaleda and her elder son Tarique Rahman in the two cases accusing them of embezzlement.
Khaleda, on May 12, challenged the legality of the appointment of Judge Basudeb Roy.
She also sought a stay on the case proceedings.
On May 25, the High Court bench of Justices Farah Mahbub and Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo delivered a split verdict on the plea regarding the legality of the judge’s appointment.
Earlier the former prime minister had moved High Court challenging the indictment but it dismissed her plea.
Justice Farah Mahbub issued a ruling and ordered a freeze on the proceedings in the cases, while Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo wanted to scrap the petitions.
As per rule, the matter was forwarded to the chief justice who assigned Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque’s bench to hear the petitions.
The bench also dismissed the petitions on June 19.
Khaleda then filed two petitions before the Appellate Division against the dismissal.
The Anti-Corruption Commission in 2008 filed a case against six, including Khaleda and her son Tarique Rahman, for allegedly siphoning off Tk 21 million from the ‘Zia Orphanage Trust’ funds, which reportedly came from a foreign bank.
Charges were pressed against them two years later.
In 2011, the ACC accused the BNP chief and three others of misappropriating Tk 31.5 million from the ‘Zia Charitable Trust’.
The national anti-graft agency started prosecution against the four by submitting a charge-sheet against them in 2012.
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