Desk Report
Publish: 03 Mar 2022, 08:03 pm
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia || Photo: Collected
A court here today set March 23 for holding a hearing on
charge framing in two cases lodged against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.
Today was fixed for holding the indictment hearings in the
two cases but Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor reset
the date, allowing a time plea of the defence.
Khaleda Zia's counsel Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder filed
the time plea, saying his client could not appear before the court due to her
illness.
Journalist Gazi Jahirul Islam lodged the fake birthday case
against Khaleda on August 30, 2016.
According to the complainant, Khaleda from 1996 was
celebrating her fake birthday on August 15, the day when Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was martyred along with most of his family
members. She is doing this on purpose only to dishonour the Father of the
Nation.
The complainant also submitted copies of different newspaper
reports on Khaleda's birthday, copies of her passport, marriage certificate and
mark sheets which indicates her birthday on any other day but not August 15.
Jananetri Parishad President AB Siddiqui filed the other case
on November 3, 2016 against Khaleda Zia and her late husband Ziaur Rahman for
stigmatizing the War of Liberation by rehabilitating anti-liberation war
elements.
The BNP chief is on bail in both the cases as Dhaka
Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Imrul Qayesh granted her bail on July 31, 2018.
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