DHAKA: Bangladesh's Supreme Court nowadays stayed a high court docket order that granted bail to former top minister Khaleda Zia in a corruption case, in step with a media file.
Zia, 72, was once sentenced to 5 years in jail on February 8 in connection with the embezzlement of 21 million taka (about $250,000) in international donations supposed for the Zia Orphanage Trust, named after her overdue husband Ziaur Rahman, a military ruler-turned-politician.
On March 12, the High Court here granted the chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a four-month period in-between bail.
However, nowadays a full bench of the Appellate Division led by way of Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order to stay until May 8 the high court docket order which granted bail to Zia in the graft case.
Following nowadays's Supreme Court order, Zia cannot get launched from jail until May 8, Anti-Corruption Commission's legal professional Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan was once quoted as saying by way of the file.
Earlier on March 15, the ACC and the state filed two leave-to-appeal petitions earlier than the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, difficult the BNP chief's bail.
Zia, 72, was once sentenced to 5 years in jail on February 8 in connection with the embezzlement of 21 million taka (about $250,000) in international donations supposed for the Zia Orphanage Trust, named after her overdue husband Ziaur Rahman, a military ruler-turned-politician.
On March 12, the High Court here granted the chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a four-month period in-between bail.
However, nowadays a full bench of the Appellate Division led by way of Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order to stay until May 8 the high court docket order which granted bail to Zia in the graft case.
Following nowadays's Supreme Court order, Zia cannot get launched from jail until May 8, Anti-Corruption Commission's legal professional Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan was once quoted as saying by way of the file.
Earlier on March 15, the ACC and the state filed two leave-to-appeal petitions earlier than the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, difficult the BNP chief's bail.
Bangladesh SC stays HC order on Zia's bail
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