A Dhaka Court has asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer to explain, by October 7, why her bail should not be cancelled in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case.
Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Judges’ Court-5, set up in the Old Dhaka Central Jail, issued the order on Sunday after Khaleda's lawyer submitted a petition seeking to extend her bail in the case.
The court also ordered Monirul Islam Khan be sent to jail—cancelling his bail.
Earlier Monirul and Ziaul Islam Munna appealed for bail.
Meanwhile, lawyer Mosharraf Hossain Kajal, the counsel for the Anti-Corruption Commission, appealed to the court seeking to cancel the duo and Khaleda’s bail.
He also appealed to the court to set a date for the case’s verdict.
The BNP chief has been in jail since February 8 after she was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
The ACC filed the Zia Charitable Trust graft case with Tejgaon police station in 2010— accusing the former prime minister and three others of abusing their power and raising funds for the trust from unknown sources.
The three other accused are Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to the then PM Khaleda, Ziaul Islam Munna, assistant private secretary to Harris, and Monirul Islam Khan, APS to former Dhaka City Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
