{"id":7749,"date":"2018-03-19T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:25:34","slug":"khaleda-zias-bail-remains-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/khaleda-zias-bail-remains-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaleda Zia\u2019s bail remains suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7347\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Khaleda-Zia.jpg\" alt=\"Khaleda Zia\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>The Supreme Court today stayed until May 8 the High Court order that granted bail to BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust case in which she was sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment.<br \/>\nThe four-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after granting two separate leave-to-appeal petitions filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission and the government challenging the High Court\u2019s bail order.<br \/>\nACC\u2019s lawyer Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan siad that the Supreme Court will hold hearing on the appeals against the High Court bail order on May 8.<br \/>\nFollowing today\u2019s Supreme Court order, Khaleda Zia cannot get released from jail till May 8, he said.<br \/>\nIt means the ACC and the government got permission from the Supreme Court to move separate appeals before the court against the High Court order.<br \/>\nThe apex court asked the ACC and government to submit concise statements on the appeal in two weeks after receiving the leave granting order.<br \/>\nKhaleda Zia has also been asked to submit concise statement on the appeal in two weeks after the ACC and government file their concise statements.<br \/>\nA concise statement contains the points on which the lawyer placed arguments on the appeals before the court.<br \/>\nAfter passing the order, Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said all the four judges of the Apex Court passed the order unanimously after examining the records of the case.<br \/>\nBarrister Kayser Kamal, a lawyer for Khaleda Zia, saidthat it is unprecedented that the Supreme Court did not assign any reason for granting leave-to-appeal petition filed by the ACC and government against the High Court order of bail to his client.<br \/>\nKhaleda Zia landed in prison on February 8 after she was handed the five-year jail sentence by a Dhaka court.<br \/>\nThe HC on March 12 granted her four months&#8217; bail on four grounds: a short sentence of five years, health condition, her facing trial, and that the case records have reached the court.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/khaleda-zias-bail-remains-suspended\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today stayed until May 8 the High Court order that granted bail to BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in Zia Orphanage Trust case in which she was sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment. 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