DHAKA, Feb 28, 2021 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today set March 14 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.
Today 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 case against Khaleda on August
30, 2016, and the court on that day issued summon against her.
According to the complainant, Khaleda from 1996 has been celebrating her
fake birthday on August 15, 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 but August 15.
Jananetri Parishad president AB Siddiqui filed the other case on November
3, 2016, 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 on bail in both the cases as Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions
Judge KM Imrul Qayesh granted her bail on July 31, 2018.