BANGLADESH NEWS
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred till August 5 the time for passing an order on whether to accept charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a graft case.
It was the fourth time that the order was deferred.
Judge (in-charge) Dr Mohammad Akhtaruzzaman of the Senior Special Judges' Court in Dhaka will now pass the order on August 5.
The court set the new date as Khaleda's lawyer Advocate Sanaullah Mia submitted a petition before it seeking an adjournment of the hearing.
In the petition, the defence counsel told the court that Khaleda could not appear before it as she went to Chittagong to distribute relief among the disaster-stricken people of the port city.
So, he prayed for the adjournment of the hearing and the court accepted it.
The court also extended till the date the bail terms of two other accused in the case, filed for graft in raising funds for Zia Charitable Trust.
The two are Ziaul Islam Munna, assistant private secretary to Khaleda's former political secretary Harris Chowdhury, and Monirul Islam Khan, APS to former Dhaka City Corporation mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
Harris, the other accused in the case, has been on the run.
Khaleda on February 2 secured permanent bail in the case.
On August 8 last year, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station, accusing the four of abusing power in raising funds from unknown sources in the name of the Zia Charitable Trust.
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