File photo of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka TribuneOn March 6, she secured a six-month interim bail in a case filed over the deaths of individuals in an arson attack in ComillaThe chamber judge of the Supreme Court has stayed the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia till April 7 in the Comilla murder case and fixed a full court hearing on the same day. Justice Nuruzzaman passed the order after hearing a criminal petition against the bail filed by the state on Sunday. Earlier on March 6, Khaleda Zia secured a six-month interim bail in a case filed over the deaths of individuals in an arson attack in Comilla. Khaleda’s lawyer petitioned the High Court on February 27 after a lower court in Comilla rejected her bail plea on February 4. She has been at the central jail in Old Dhaka since February 8, 2018.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 31, 2019 13:41 UTC