DHAKA: Terming the charge framing against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia illegal, party’s standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia said that they would move to High Court.

He came up with the observation while addressing a human chain programme in front of National Press Club in the capital on Friday morning.

On March 19, a Dhaka court framed charges against Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and seven others in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.

On August 8, 2011, Anti-Corruption Commission filed Zia Charitable Trust case with Tejgaon police station accusing four people, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing power in raising funds for the trust from unknown sources.

ACC deputy director Harunur Rashid, also investigation officer of the case, pressed charges against the accused on January 16, 2012.

Besides, ACC filed the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on July 3, 2008 with Ramna police station accusing Khaleda Zia, her eldest son Tarique Rahman, now living in the UK, after securing bail, and four others of misappropriating over Tk 2.10 crore which came as grants from a foreign bank for the orphans.

BDST: 1223 HRS, MAR 21, 2014