DHAKA: BNP chairperson and also former premier Khaleda Zia alleged that the country’s judiciary is not free from the control of the government though the department is separated from the executive.

She made the allegation at an iftar program, organized by Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya at Supreme Court Bar Auditorium in city on Saturday evening.

The BNP chief said that her party believes in democracy and rule of law.

‘We made the judiciary department separated from executive. The judiciary is separated now but not free,’ she commented.

Mentioning the arrests of BNP-led 20-party alliance leaders and activists, the BNP chief claimed that they did not create violence during the movement with the demand of arranging national polls under caretaker government.

Supreme Court Bar general secretary and also BNP joint-secretary general Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon conducted the program.

BDST: 2118 HRS, JULY 04, 2015
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