UNB, Dhaka

Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s court yesterday rejected detained former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s bail petition in Barapukuria Coalmine case, one of four graft cases she is facing after the January 11, 2007 changeover in the country’s political arena.
However, the High Court toady granted interim bail to two of her former cabinet ministers-Shamsul Islam and MK Anwar-in the same case.
Metropolitan Sessions judge Md Azizul Haque rejected the immediate-past premier’s bail prayer on grounds that the case was filed under the unassailable Emergency Power Rules (EPR). [Read more]