The High Court yesterday finished hearing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal to scrap the proceeding of Barapukuria coal mine graft case filed against her.
The bench of Justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur Rob put aside the judgment for another day after concluding argument on her petition.
The court will deliver the verdict any day.
The court also extended its previous order that stayed the proceedings of the case until delivery of the verdict.
On August 23 the High Court rejected two petitions of Khaleda Zia seeking the records and final report on Barapukuria corruption case.
Khaleda filed the petitions on August 18 to learn about the legal procedure under which the ACC appointed the second investigation officer (IO) after the first IO had exempted her from the charges on June 2008.
The case was filed illegally against her to politically harass her, she said in the petition.
The ACC on February 26, 2008, filed the case with Shahbagh police station accusing Khaleda and 10 of her former cabinet colleagues of taking Tk159 crore in kickbacks on the Barapukuria coalmine deal awarded to the highest bidder instead of the lowest one.
In 2008, the High Court stayed the case proceedings and in a ruling asked the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission to explain why the case should not be dropped.
The court extended the stay order on the case several times in the past. The latest six-month extension was ordered on April 10.
