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Khaleda's Indictment

HC gives split order on judge

Staff Correspondent
A High Court bench yesterday delivered dissenting orders on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's writ petitions challenging the appointment of a trial court judge, who indicted her in two separate corruption cases.
On March 19, Bashudev Roy, judge of Special Judge's Court-3 of Dhaka, framed charges against Khaleda and
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eight others in Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust corruption cases, filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Khaleda filed two writs with the HC on May 12 challenging the appointment of the judge and her indictment. She also prayed for scrapping the proceedings of the cases.
Yesterday, Justice Farah Mahbub, senior judge of the bench, stayed the proceedings of both the cases for three months.
She also issued a rule asking the government to explain in four weeks why the gazette notification published without fixing the jurisdiction of the special court should not be declared illegal.
The government issued the notification on April 25,2007 under Section 4(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1958. Bashudev Roy was appointed as the judge of court on March 4 this year.
Justice Farah also asked the government to explain why the continuation of
the proceedings against Khaleda and her indictment should not be declared illegal.
However, Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo, the other judge of the bench, summarily rejected the prayers, saying there was no substance in the petitions, ACC counsel Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said the HC bench will now send the petitions and the orders to the chief justice who will then forward those to another HC bench for disposal.
The attorney general hoped that the petitions will be disposed of by June 19, the date the Special Judge's Court-3 of Dhaka fixed for recording statements of witnesses of the cases.
Earlier on April 23, the HC rejected two review petitions of Khaleda, challenging the indictment orders issued by Bashudev Roy in the same cases.
The HC in its order said the trial court had properly framed charges against her in the cases.