Court sets Oct 17 to decide on charges against Zubaida
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A Dhaka court will decide on October 17 whether to accept the charges against Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, in a graft case.
Judge Md Asaduzzaman of Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge’s Court on Thursday set the date after scrutinising case dockets and other relevant documents, said court sources.
The HC on June 25 declared Tarique and Zubaida as “fugitives” and rejected their writ petitions challenging the filing and initiation of a Tk 4.82-crore graft case.
The HC also withdrew the stay order on the case filed during the caretaker government in 2007 and directed the lower court concerned to complete the trial proceedings as early as possible.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka was asked to send the case record to Dhaka Senior Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court within 10 days of receiving the order for holding its trial.
Trial proceedings of Tarique was stayed on October 1 of 2007, following a writ petition filed by him, while trial proceedings against his mother-in-law Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu were quashed.
On September 26, 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case with Kafrul Police Station against Tarique, his wife Zubaida and her mother Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu for amassing assets worth Tk 4.82 crore through illegal means and concealing information of Tk 2.16 crore in their wealth statements.
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