Dhaka:
Bangladesh Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday acquitted former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a corruption case by which she was sentenced to seven years in jail by a decrease courtroom, based on media studies.
Zia, 79, was convicted within the Zia Charitable Belief corruption case in 2018 by a Dhaka courtroom. It additionally sentenced her to seven years imprisonment underneath the previous prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League authorities and fined her Tk 1 million.
A bench of Justices AKM Asaduzzaman and Syed Enayet Hossain overturned the choice based mostly on an attraction by Zia, the bdnews24.com information portal reported. Two others accused within the case had been additionally acquitted by the courtroom.
The graft case was filed in 2011 by the Anti-Corruption Fee with Tejgaon Police Station, accusing Zia and three others of abusing energy to boost funds for the belief from unknown sources, the Every day Star information portal reported.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP) Chairperson was lodged within the Outdated Dhaka Central Jail on February 8, 2018, after a particular courtroom sentenced her to 5 years in jail within the Zia Orphanage Belief corruption case.
On October 30, 2018, the Excessive Courtroom raised her punishment to 10 years. Later, she was convicted within the Zia Charitable Belief corruption case.
Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the federal government briefly launched Zia from jail after 776 days by an govt order, suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with situations that she would keep in her Gulshan home and never go away the nation.
On August 6, after the regime change in Dhaka, Zia was fully freed by an order of Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin.
Zia served because the prime minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and once more from June 2001 to October 2006.
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