Khaleda’s one year in jail term
Staff Reporter :
Khaleda Zia, BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has fulfilled one year of her jail term sentenced by a Dhaka court in a corruption case.
On February 8, 2018, the court jailed BNP Chairperson for five years after she was found guilty in the Zia Orphanage Trust Graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Later the High Court recently doubled the sentence.
In the case, her eldest son and BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and four others, former lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque Kamal, businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed, Khaleda’s former Principal
Khaleda Zia, BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has fulfilled one year of her jail term sentenced by a Dhaka court in a corruption case.
On February 8, 2018, the court jailed BNP Chairperson for five years after she was found guilty in the Zia Orphanage Trust Graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Later the High Court recently doubled the sentence.
In the case, her eldest son and BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and four others, former lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque Kamal, businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed, Khaleda’s former Principal
Secretary Kamal Uddin Siddiqui and BNP founder Ziaur Rahman’s nephew Momenur Rahman, had been given 10 years jail in the case and a fine of Tk 2.10 crore each in the politically significant case.
During the 2007-2008 tenure of the army-backed Caretaker Government, she was in jail for about a year on charge of corruption.
Khaleda Zia was made Vice-Chairperson of BNP in March 1983 after the assassination of her husband and former President Ziaur Rahman. She became Chairperson of the party on May 10, 1984, a post she is holding still today.
