BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has expressed no-confidence on the judges in two graft cases after the court denied petition that was filed seeking adjournment of taking deposition.
Lawyers of Khaleda filed time petition as she could not appear before the court due to security issues during the dawn-to-dusk nationwide hartal on Thursday.
The court granted the time plea. Later, the lawyers filed another petition seeking adjournment of taking deposition in the Zia Charitable and Orphanage Trust graft cases filed against Khaleda Zia.
Denying the petition, Dhaka's Third Special Judge's Court judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar was taking the deposition.
Meanwhile, Khaleda’s lawyers filed another reconsideration petition that was also rejected.
Under the circumstances, defence lawyers declared no-confidence on the judges of Zia charitable graft cases.
After taking partial deposition, the court set January 29 for the next hearing date for the two graft cases.
On August 8, 2011, the ACC filed the case with Tejgaon police station against four people -- Khaleda, her former political secretary Harris Chowdhury, his assistant personal secretary Ziaul Islam Munna and Manirul Islam Khan, former personal secretary of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka -- on charge of abusing power for collecting funds from unknown sources.
The IO of the case pressed charges against the accused on January 16, 2012. Of them, Harris has been staying abroad since 2007 while Ziaul and Monirul are now on bail.
