Khaleda returns to her residence after 92 days

FE Team | Published: April 06, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Ninety-two days after her stay in her Gulshan office, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence on Sunday following her bail in two graft cases, reports UNB.
From the special court at Bakshibazar in the city, Khaleda's motorcade entered her Gulshan residence around 12:20pm instead of her Gulshan office where she had been staying since January 03.
Earlier in the day, the BNP chief who was facing an arrest warrant in two graft cases started her journey for appearing before the court from her Gulshan office around 9:55 am and reached the court premises around 10:35am.
The court granted her bail in the two cases after hearing.
Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the Special Judge's Court-3 on the Bakshibazar Alia Madrasah playground passed the order after petitions
were filed by Khaleda's lawyer Sanaullah Miah.
The court fixed May 05 for next hearing on the two cases.
During the hearing, Khaleda and two other accused -- Sharfuddin Ahmed and Kazi Salimul Haque --were present in the courtroom.
Later, Khaleda and her entourage left the court premises around 11:50 pm.
For the first time since January 03, Khaleda came out of her Gulshan office in the morning to go to the court. She had not left her office for a single time earlier in the 92 days, even after the death of her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and on Amar Ekushey and Independence Days.
Earlier on Saturday evening, the Nayapaltan central office of her party BNP reopened Saturday evening, three months after its closure.
A group of BNP leaders and activists, led by its assistant office secretary Asadul Karim Shahin, entered the office around 7:40pm breaking open a lock put by police at the main gate.
Police put the BNP headquarters under lock and key on January 03 around 11:10pm prior to the first anniversary of the January-5 election.
Minutes after police locked the BNP's Nayapaltan central office, the law enforcers also 'confined Khaleda to her office' on January 03 last around 11:30pm, a day before her party-led 20-party's much-hyped January-5 rally in the city to mark what she said 'Democracy Killing Day' to protest the 10th parliamentary polls that her BNP and its allies boycotted.
On January 19, 15 days after their strong vigil, police withdrew their barricade from in front of BNP chairperson's Gulshan office freeing her from her confinement to the office.
Khaleda had held a press conference on the day and said she would stay her office to carry out party's activities.