DHAKA:  The High Court fixed Monday (November 19) to pass an order on the writ plea filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging legality of the decision of authority concerned to send her back to jail while she was undergoing treatment at BSMMU.

The HC bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order after holding a hearing on supplementary information placed before it by Khaleda Zia’s lawyer on Sunday (November 18).

Earlier, the bench judged the petition on a number of days to deliver of its order.

Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali moved for Khaleda Zia while Additional Attorney General Murad Reza stood for the state.

Barrister Nawshad Jamir, a lawyer for Khaleda, filed the writ petition on November 11.

Khaleda’s lawyers said, “Sending BNP Chairperson to jail without completing her treatment is against fundamental right. The prayer also made in the writ to ask authority to continue her treatment after admitting her into a specialized hospital.”

Besides, the court was prayed to issue a rule as to why Khaleda Zia will not be given enough treatment.

9 persons, including the Home Secretary, the prison authorities, and   Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University authorities were made respondent to reply.

Khaleda Zia was admitted to BSMMU on October 6 as per HC directive and was taken back to city’s old central jail on November 8.

Khaleda Zia has been serving her five years’ sentence in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case since February 8, 2018.

She is now imprisoned in city’s old central jail.

BDST: 1316 HRS, NOV 18, 2018

AH