The government and its anti-corruption commission (ACC) filed two separate appeals against four-month interim bail of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
Lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan, on behalf of the ACC, filed the appeal with Appellate Division while Advocate Sufia Khatun lodged another appeal on behalf of the state on Tuesday.
The ACC lawyer said that Chamber Judge of Appellate Division will hear the appeals at noon, reports UNB.
On Monday, the High Court (HC) granted the four-month interim bail to the former Prime Minister.
Earlier, on February 22, she filed the petition with the HC seeking bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
Barrister Nowshad Jamir and Barrister Kaiser Kamal, on behalf of the BNP chief, submitted the 880-page bail petition showing 31 grounds for granting her bail.
On February 25, Khaleda Zia failed to secure bail in the case as the HC says it will pass an order on her bail petition upon receiving all the documents relating to the judgment from the lower court.
Earlier, the High Court asked the lower court to submit all the relevant documents within 15 days.
On February 8, the Dhaka Special Court-5 convicted Khaleda Zia and sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the case. She was then sent to old central jail at Nazimuddin Road in the city.
The court read out a 632-page summarised version of the verdict on that day and it released the full 1174-page copy of the verdict on February 19.
