Charge hearing in two cases against Khaleda 28 March

BNP chairpersons Khaleda Zia
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A Dhaka court Sunday set 28 March for holding hearing on charge framing in two cases lodged against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for celebrating fake birthday on National Mourning Day and stigmatizing the War of Liberation by rehabilitating anti-liberation forces.

Sunday was fixed for holding a hearing on the matter, but additional chief
metropolitan magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor reset the date allowing a time plea of the defence.

Journalist Gazi Jahirul Islam lodged the fake birthday case against Khaleda on 30 August 2016, and the court on that day issued summon against her.

According to the complainant, Khaleda from 1996 is celebrating her fake
birthday on 15 August, the day when Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was martyred along with most of his family members. She is doing this on purpose only to dishonour the Father of the Nation.

The complainant also submitted copies of different newspaper reports on
Khaleda’s birthday, copies of her passport, marriage certificate and mark
sheets, which indicates her birthday on any other day, not on 15 August.

Jananetri Parishad president AB Siddiqui filed the other case on 3 November against Khaleda Zia and her late husband Ziaur Rahman for
stigmatizing the War of Liberation by rehabilitating anti- Liberation War elements.

The BNP chief is now on bail in both the cases.