Khaleda files two pleas with HC challenging trial court order

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed two petitions with the High Court challenging a lower court order that rejected her two applications in connection with Zia Charitable Trust corruption case on Sunday.

One application was filed for re-cross examination of the investigation officer of the case while another for scrutinising the case diary of the IO.

In the petitions, Khaleda also prayed to the HC to stay the trial proceedings against her in the case, Raghib Rauf Chowdhury, a lawyer for Khaleda, told The Daily Star.

ACC's lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star that they will contest the petitions of Khaleda before the HC during its hearing.

Earlier on Sunday, a Dhaka court rejected the applications of the BNP chief.

Lawyers of Khaleda submitted the applications before the court at Bakshibazar in presence of Khaleda.

On April 7, the HC cleared the way for a lower court to continue the trial proceedings after rejecting Khaleda's petition.

Other accused in the case filed by the ACC on August 8, 2011 are Harris Chowdhury, Khaleda's former political secretary, Ziaul Islam Munna, assistant private secretary of Harris, and Monirul Islam Khan, APS of former mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka. Of them, Harris is on the run.