‘Process underway to extend time length of Khaleda’s release’

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said that the process is underway to extend the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's jail sentence in two graft cases.

The home minister said this while talking to journalists at the Secretariat on Thursday.

“We have received an application and it has been sent to the law ministry following the procedure, and now process is underway as per the law ministry's opinion”, he said.

Khaleda's family has recently submitted an application to the home ministry seeking further extension of her conditional release and permission to allow her to go abroad for receiving advanced treatment.