Dhaka: Attacks on Hindus have intensified in Bangladesh, while radical Islamist Khalid Zia has been acquitted of corruption charges. Let it be known that the High Court has on Wednesday acquitted former Prime Minister and President of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Khaleda Zia in the corruption case. Because of this, the threat of attacks on Hindus has increased. In this case, the lower court sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Local media has given this information. Zia (79) was convicted by a Dhaka court in 2018 in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 1 million taka (Bangladeshi currency) during the tenure of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government. According to news portal ‘bdnews24.com’, Justice A.K.M. A bench of Asaduzman and Justice Syed Inayat Hussain accepted Zia’s appeal and set aside the lower court’s sentence. At the same time, the Daily Star said in its news that the Anti-Corruption Commission had registered a corruption case at Tejgaon police station in 2011, accusing Jia and three others of misusing power to collect money for the trust from unknown sources. was
The High Court increased the sentence from 5 to 10 years
The BNP chairman was sent to the old Dhaka Central Jail on February 8, 2018, after being sentenced to five years in prison by a special court in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. On 30 October 2018, the High Court increased his sentence to 10 years. He was later convicted in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case. Zia was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996 and again from June 2001 to October 2006.
Hindus charged with murder over lawyer’s death
Hindus have been blamed for the death of a lawyer in Bangladesh’s Chittagong city. A lawyer was killed in Bangladesh following clashes between security personnel and Hindu protesters over the arrest of a prominent Hindu leader. Police have also charged security personnel with assault and detained at least 30 suspects. Assistant Public Prosecutor Saiful Islam was killed on Tuesday during a clash between security personnel and followers of “Bangladesh Samishtha Sanatni Jagran Jot” spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari. The violence erupted after Das was denied bail by a Chittagong court and sent to jail in a sedition case. (language)
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