UNB, Dhaka

After a four-day adjournment, the charge hearing on the extortion case against detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resumes on Sunday at Dhaka metropolitan sessions judge’ s court relocated to the parliament Bhaban complex. When the court resumes, the defence counsel for the Awami League president is likely to come up with a formal petition along with arguments opposing the charge brought by the Anti-Corruption Commission prosecution against her in the extortion case, stemming from a power-plant deal warded to a private company when she was in power. [Read more]