The Supreme Court (SC) is hearing an appeal by the Anti-Corruption Commission challenging the High Court’s bail order for BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
The BNP expects the Supreme Court will uphold Khaleda’s bail she has secured from the HC, considering her health, reports bdnews24.
But the political party fears the government may delay her release by showing her arrested in other cases.
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Justice Muhammad Imman Ali, Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Justice Mirza Hussain Haider started the hearing at 9:35am Tuesday.
Khaleda has been in the old jailhouse on Nazimuddin Road since Feb 8 when a special court sentenced her to five years in prison for corruption in the orphanage trust.
The High Court on Mar 12 granted her a four-month interim bail, considering age and health issues after the special court released the full verdict.
When ACC and the State moved the Appellate Division, it suspended the bail order until May 8, allowing these two to start appeals against the bail.