The High Court has disposed of the petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, challenging the legality of trial proceedings in Gatco graft case.
The HC bench of justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur Rob passed the order on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the order, the trial of case can be run in the lower court.
The court also asked Khaleda to surrender before the trial court within two months from the date of publishing the full order of the High Court.
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On Jun 17, the same bench kept the petitions waiting for verdict.
On September 2, 2007, the ACC filed the case with Tejgaon police station against former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her younger son late Arafat Rahman Koko, along with some of her cabinet colleagues.
The case was filed for graft in awarding Gatco the contract for container handling at depots in Dhaka and Chittagong, causing a loss of over Tk14 crore to the state coffer.
Khaleda filed two writ petitions in connection with the Gatco scam cases with the High Court on September 27, 2007. The High Court stayed the operation of the proceedings of the case on September 30.
Later, responding to an ACC plea, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court revoked the HC stay order, he added.
Shortly after the apex court order, Khaleda Zia filed another writ petition challenging the validity of initiating the case and the HC further stayed the Gatco scam case proceedings in July 2008, the ACC counsel further said.
