Jumbangla Desk: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is no longer barred from participating in the elections after being acquitted in the Zia Charitable Trust case by the High Court. Whenever the next election, this former prime minister can be a candidate.

In 2018, a judge in Dhaka sentenced Khaleda Zia to seven years in prison and fined Tk 10 lakh in a charitable case. The High Court Bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Syed Enayet Hussain allowed Khaleda Zia's appeal against the verdict and acquitted Khaleda Zia and two other convicts Ziaul Islam and Monirul Islam Khan on Wednesday.

On November 11, the Appellate Division suspended the 10-year sentence given by the High Court to Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. After the fall of Sheikh Hasina in the student uprising, the President had on August 6 remitted two sentences of the BNP chairperson. In this, he was acquitted but appealed to be acquitted in a legal battle.

According to the Constitution, those sentenced to more than two years for a criminal offense cannot stand for election until five years have passed after release. Because of this, Khaleda Zia's candidature in the 2018 election was cancelled. Constitutional experts say that Khaleda Zia, who was acquitted in one of the two cases and was acquitted in one of the two cases, is no longer barred from participating in the elections. There were several other cases against him, but they were not convicted. Yesterday he was also acquitted from the coal mining case.

Zainul Abedin, the senior lawyer who heard on behalf of Khaleda Zia in the charitable case, told reporters that no witness said that Khaleda Zia misappropriated the trust money. The case has been made with political motives. Barrister Kaiser Kamal, another lawyer of Khaleda Zia, said that Khaleda Zia got justice through the acquittal.

The other two acquitted are Ziaul Islam, then private secretary of late Haris Chowdhury and Monirul Islam Khan, private secretary of former mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka.

Exemption in Barapukuria case

The judge of Dhaka's Third Special Judge's Court released Khaleda Zia and three others from the Barapukuria coal mine corruption case filed 17 years ago. Abu Taher. Charged against the other four accused and ordered to start the trial. Exempted are former Minister of Commerce Altaf Hossain Chowdhury and former Minister of Health Dr. Khandkar Mosharraf Hossain.

Hosaf Group chairman Moazzem Hossain, former energy and mineral resources secretary Nazrul Islam, former Petrobangla directors Moinul Ahsan and Sirajul Islam Chowdhury will be tried.

Khaleda Zia's lawyer Masood Ahmed Talukder said that the BNP chairperson was accused for political purposes.

Dr. Khandkar Mosharraf Hossain said, Awami League has harassed us with cases to achieve their interests.

On February 26, 2008, ACC filed a Barapukuria coal mine corruption case against Khaleda Zia and 16 people including her cabinet members at Shahbag police station. On October 5 of the same year, a charge sheet was issued against 13 accused.

Tariq Rahman acquitted in two cases

Acting Chairman of BNP Tariq Rahman has been acquitted from two separate cases of tax evasion and extortion of contracting firm Abdul Monem Limited filed by the National Board of Revenue (NBR). Judge Rezaul Karim of Dhaka Special Judge Court-10 and Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka on Wednesday yesterday. Sanaullah ordered the release separately.

After examining the documents in the tax evasion case, the judge termed the complaint of the plaintiff as fictitious and fabricated. On July 28, 2008, Samia Akhtar, the Deputy Commissioner of Tax Zone-6 of Dhaka filed this case as a plaintiff on the charge of tax evasion of Tk 26 lakh 86 thousand during the eleventh government.

Khaleda Zia's treatment abroad will start after performing Umrah

On April 9, 2007, at 11:00 a.m., the general manager of Abdul Monem Limited, Khairul Bashar, filed a case against eight people including Tariq Rahman at the Shahbag police station, accusing them of extortion. However, the final report given by the police said that the plaintiff filed the case due to political pressure. contemporary