On Tuesday, Khaleda surrendered to court and moved bail petitions in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases as a warrant was issued for her at the previous hearing. The BNP chairperson was scheduled to resume her defence statement in the orphanage graft case on that day, but her counsels pleaded for time, when the court ordered her arrest and scheduled the hearing of arguments in the orphanage graft case. The court granted bail, rescinded its order on hearing arguments and said it would hear the defendant’s statement. “The plaintiff claims I have formed the Zia Orphanage Trust through my two sons and a relative Mominur Rahman. It has set Dec 19, 20 and 21 for hearing arguments by the defence and prosecution, after which the only remaining proceedings of the trial will be the announcement of the verdict.

Source: bd News24 December 05, 2017 06:00 UTC