The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the High Court order that stayed trial proceedings in four sabotage cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia filed with Darussalam and other police stations.
A full bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order after rejecting petitions filed by the state seeking cancellation of the HC order.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the state while Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon stood for Khaleda Zia, during the hearing.
On 17 August, the Appellate Division upheld the HC order that stayed trial proceedings in the four sabotage cases against the BNP chief.
The cases were filed during the blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance in 2015.
Khaleda Zia was released on March 25 this year, following a government decision, suspending her sentence for six months on humanitarian grounds considering her age as she was serving prison sentences in the Zia Orphanage Trust and the Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.
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