NN Online:
The High Court will deliver its verdict on Wednesday in an appeal filed by Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP’s acting chairman Tarique Rahman, challenging her three-year prison sentence in a corruption case.
The date was fixed by Justice Md Khasruzzaman on Monday following two days of hearings on the appeal.
Zubaida’s lawyers SM Shahjahan and Kayser Kamal presented arguments in court, while Asif Hasan represented the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The court reviewed key documents including the FIR, chargesheet, witness testimonies, and the lower court’s judgment.
Zubaida was convicted in 2023, though her sentence was suspended for a year on the condition that she appear before the Senior Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka and file an appeal.
She, along with her husband Tarique and daughter Zaima, left for London in 2008 when Tarique was released from prison for advanced medical treatment and did not return during the Awami League’s tenure in power.
Following the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 last year, several cases against BNP leaders, including Tarique and Khaleda Zia, were dismissed by the courts.
After 17 years in exile, Zubaida returned to Bangladesh on May 6 this year, accompanying her mother-in-law Khaleda Zia. She later filed the appeal challenging her conviction.
Now, all eyes are on the High Court as it prepares to deliver its ruling on the fate of her jail sentence.
