Khaleda files bail pleas in three cases

The lawyers of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia filed on Sunday separate petitions with the High Court (HC) seeking her bail in three cases, reports UNB.

Among the three cases, two were filed in Cumilla on charge of plotting to carry out subversive acts and another in Narail on charge of defamation, said Advocate Khandaker Mahbub Hossain.

Earlier, on the day, an HC bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice JBM Hassan granted permission to Khaleda for filing the bail petitions after her lawyers prayed for it.

Later, the HC bench fixed June 07 to hear the bail pleas of the two Cumilla cases, Khaleda's lawyer said.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday the High Court order that had granted bail to convicted BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.