Graft case against Zubaida: HC set to deliver its verdict May 28
Staff Correspondent
The High Court on Tuesday fixed May 28 for delivering its judgment in the appeal petition filed by Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, challenging her three-year jail sentence in a graft case.
The bench of Justice Md Khasruzzaman fixed the date after hearing the petition.
Advocate Asif Hasan stood for the Anti-Corruption Commission while Advocate SM Shahjahan, Advocate Kaisar Kamal and Advocate Zakir Bhuiya represented the petitioner.
On May 14, Zubaida filed the petition with the HC seeking to overturn her sentence. The court accepted the petition for hearing and condoned a 587-day delay in filing the appeal.
On August 2, 2023, a Dhaka court sentenced Tarique to nine years in prison and Zubaida to three years in a case related to amassing wealth illegally and concealing information.
On September 22 last year, the Security Services Division under the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a gazette suspending Zubaida’s sentence for one year, following her petition and with the consent of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
Zubaida had left the country with her husband for London on September 11, 2008, where she lived for nearly 17 years before returning to Bangladesh on May 6 this year.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against the couple and another individual on September 26, 2007, at Dhaka’s Kafrul Police Station for concealing wealth information and amassing illegal assets.
