Khaleda appears before court

Staff Correspondent: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has appeared before a court in Dhaka in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Khaleda reached around 11.00am on Monday the Special Judge Court-3 set up at Bakshibazar in the city.

On January 26, the court fixed January 30 as the date of hearing and asked the BNP chairperson to appear before it.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on July 3, 2008 with Ramna Police Station accusing Khaleda, her eldest son Tarique, residing in the UK since 2008, and four others for misappropriating over Tk 2.10 lakh that was received as grant for orphans from a foreign bank.

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