A Dhaka Court on Thursday granted Bangladesh’s former premier and main opposition leader Begum Khalelida, who has been charge sheeted in a corruption case, after she surrendered to the court.

Metropolitan Session Judge Ahmed Jamil Mustafa granted the bail to Zia under a surety bond of one lakh Taka. The government's anti-corruption department submitted the chargesheet against her to the court on Tuesday alleging that she misappropriated 1,750 million Taka (32.4 million dollars)

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The public prosecutor opposed the bail saying that Zia and others misappropriated the money by abusing power when she was the prime minister.
Besides Zia, the anti-corruption bureau in the case also indicted nine others, including two of her former cabinet ministers, a former cabinet secretary and six former officials of the national air linerin Bangladesh Biman.

Zia, who heads the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996.

Bureau Report