A Dhaka court yesterday adjourned until August 27 the hearing of Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust corruption cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the Special Judge Court 3 set the date after Aminul Islam, counsel for Ziaul Islam Munna who is an accused in Zia Charitable Trust graft case, concluded quizzing Harun-ur-Rashid, deputy director of the Anti-Corruption Commission and also the plaintiff in both cases.
The court also put restrictions on Ziaul Islam Munna’s foreign travel. Munna is the suspended BIWTA official who served as assistant private secretary to then prime minister Khaleda’s political secretary Harris Chowdhury.
In response to a petition of the prosecution, the court also ordered the accused to submit his passport at the next hearing.
The ACC filed Zia Orphanage Trust graft case against Khaleda, her elder son Tarique Rahman and six others on July 3, 2008, and the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against Khaleda and three others on August 8, 2011.
