Khaleda Zia files bail pleas in 3 cases

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is in jail in Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case, has filed three separate petitions with the High Court seeking bail in three separate cases.

The lawyers of BNP chief on Sunday filed separate petitions with the High Court.

Among the three cases, two were filed in Cumilla on charge of plotting to carry out subversive acts and another in Narail on charge of defamation.

Earlier in the day, a HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice JBM Hassan granted permission to Khaleda for filing the bail petitions after her lawyers sought for it.

On February 3, 2015, eight people were killed and at least 20 others injured when miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a bus at Jogmohanpur in Chouddagram of Cumilla district during the BNP-led alliance’s movement.

Two cases - one under the Explosive Substances Act and another for murder - were filed against Khaleda in connection with the incident.

On December 21, 2015, Khaleda Zia at a discussion at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh raised questions about the actual number of Liberation War martyrs saying, “There’re controversies over how many were martyred in the Liberation War.”

Reacting to Khaleda’s remark, a defamation case was filed against her with a Narail court on December 14.