Besides the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, the Anti-Corruption Commission started three other graft cases against Khaleda in 2008 during the military-controlled caretaker government. Judge Mahmudul Kabir of the Ninth Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka is hearing the Niko graft case. The Second Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka is hearing the Barhapukuria Coal Mine graft case, with Hosne Ara as the judge. The Awami League returned to power in 2008, and the ACC started the Zia Charitable Trust graft case against Khaleda three years later. After seeing the news of the orders to present Khaleda in court, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said the government wanted to ‘prevent Khaleda from walking free’.

Source: bd News24 February 12, 2018 18:11 UTC