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Khaleda to be sent to BSMMU today: Anisul
DHAKA, June 10, 2018 (BSS) – Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Minister Anisul Huq said BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia will be sent to
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) today for her medical
checkup.
“I’ve learned that she will be taken to BSMMU today,” Huq said, quoting
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan.
The minister came up with the observations while talking to newsmen as he
was distributing keys of vehicles among the district judges at the
secretariat.
Huq’s comment came a day after the BNP chief’s physicians’ claimed that
she might suffer mild stroke in jail.
On February 8 last, the Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 sentenced Khaleda Zia
to five-year imprisonment in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
It also sentenced other five accused — her elder son and BNP senior vice
chairman Tarique Rahman, former lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque Kamal,
businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed, Dr Kamal Uddin Siddiqui and Khaleda’s nephew
Mominur Rahman — to 10-year imprisonment each.
Replying to another question on probe against International Crimes
Tribunal (ICT) prosecutor Barrister Tureen Afroz, the law minister said they
would be able to reach a decision on her within this month.
BSS/MHR/GMR/1511 hrs