Desk Report
Published: 13 Jan 2022, 07:30 pm
Photo: Collected
A court here today set February 1 for holding hearing for two
cases lodged against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia.
According to court sources, those two cases lodged against
Khaleda Zia on the charges of celebrating fake birthday on National Mourning
Day and stigmatizing the War of Liberation by rehabilitating the
anti-liberation forces.
Today (January 13) was fixed for holding indictment hearing, 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.
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.