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The Daily Star. Earlier on Tuesday, the same HC bench condoned Zubaida’s 587 days’ delay for filing the appeal against the trial court verdict in the case.

According to the law, an appeal is supposed to be filed with the HC within 60 days after the trial court delivers judgement in such a case, SM Shahjahan, a senior counsel for Zubaida, told this correspondent on Tuesday.

He also informed that the government on October 2 last year suspended the jail term of Zubaida Rahman for one year, on the condition that she will file an appeal in the case upon surrender.

Following the HC’s order of condonation of delay on Tuesday, Zubaida’s lawyers filed the appeal with the HC challenging the trial court judgment.

A group of lawyers including SM Shahjahan, AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, Kayser Kamal, Aminul Islam, Nasir Uddin Ashim, Zakir Hossain Bhuiyan and Maksud appeared for Zubaida, while lawyer Asif Hasan stood for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) during the hearing.

On August 2, 2023, a Dhaka court sentenced Tarique Rahman to nine years’ imprisonment and his wife Zubaida to three years jail sentence in the corruption case.