The Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has given its opinion in favour of extending the jail sentence suspension period of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia by another six months.
“The Security Service Division under the Home Ministry will issue a gazette notification in this regard,” Law Minister Anisul Huq told UNB.
Khaleda Zia will take treatment from home and she will not be allowed to go abroad during this period, he said.
Recently Khaleda’s family filed a petition before the Home Ministry seeking her unconditional release. They also sought permission from the home minister to allow Khaleda Zia go abroad for her treatment.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on conditions that she would stay at her Gulshan house, and would not leave the country.
The BNP chief was admitted to Evercare Hospital several times after she had tested positive for Covid-19 in April 2021.
Khaleda's family submitted several applications to the government seeking permission to send her to an advanced centre abroad for the treatment of her multiple health complications, but the government has rejected it every time as she was convicted of corruption by the court in two cases.
