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Charitable Trust Case

Khaleda submits bail bond

Court Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday appeared before a Dhaka court to submit her bail bond in connection with Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed by the AntiCorruption Commission (ACC).
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Shahadat Hossain allowed the leader of the opposition to submit it upon aTk 5,000 bond with two guarantors' minutes.
After a brief three-minute hearing Khaleda left the court premises.
Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder moved the petition for the BNP chief. Senior lawyers, including Supreme Court Bar Association President Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and former law minister Moudud Ahmed, were also present in the court.
On December 8 last year, the High Court (HC) granted Khaleda anticipatory bail and asked her to submit the bail bond to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court.
ACC on August 8 last year filed the graft case with Tejgaon Police Station against Khaleda and three others accusing them of abusing power in setting up a charitable trust named after late president Ziaur Rahman.
The other accused are: Abul Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to the then prime minister Khaleda Zia, his assistant personal secretary (APS) Ziaul Islam Munna, and Monirul Islam Khan, APS to former Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
On Monday, ACC pressed charges against Khaleda and the three.
BNP, however, had alleged that the case was filed only to
harass Khaleda and her two sons.
Meanwhile, apart from Khaleda's counsels and proBNP lawyers, a large number of BNP leaders and activists, including its acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, yesterday gathered on the court premises from 10:30am to welcome the party chief.
Traffic movement in the area came to a halt since 11:15am although the BNP chairperson reached the court around 12:30pm. BNP activists also blocked the road from Nayabazar to Jagannath University area to clear way for
their chairperson.
Additional law enforcers had been deployed on and around the court premises to avert any untoward situation.
On way from the court to her Gulshan residence, Khaleda was escorted up to Golapshah Mazar in Gulistan area by BNP supporters.
Before yesterday Khaleda had appeared at a court in 2007 after her arrest during the army-backed caretaker government. She had to appear before the lower court on four occasions in connection with different graft cases.