The High Court will give its decision on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s pleas challenging the legality of the Gatco graft case on August 5. The bench of Justice Md Nuruzzaman and Justice Abdur Rob finished hearing the rule on the two petitions — issued 7 years ago — on June 17 and kept its verdict pending. “The matter has been included in the court’s cause list and August 5 has been fixed for the verdict,” the BNP chief’s lawyer Ragib Rouf Chowdhury said. The Gatco case was filed on September 2, 2007, against 13 people including Khaleda and her youngest son, the late Arafat Rahman Coco. Charges were brought against 24 people in the case on May 13, 2008, leading to Khaleda and Coco’s arrest the next day. The charge-sheet in the case said the state faced a loss of Tk 145.63 million with Gatco being awarded the container handling work at the Dhaka Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Kamalapur and the Chittagong Port. Later, the High Court had frozen both cases following petitions by the BNP chief, according to bdnews24.com.
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