HC to hear Zubaida Rahman’s appeal against graft conviction on Thursday
Published: 21 May 2025, 4:41:29
The High Court (HC) has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, May 22, on a petition filed by Dr Zubaida Rahman, wife of BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, challenging her three-year jail sentence in a corruption case.
Justice Md Khasruzzaman’s bench fixed the hearing date after her lawyers, Kaiser Kamal and Zakir Hossain Bhuiyan, appeared before the court on Wednesday.
Zubaida filed the petition on May 14, seeking to overturn her conviction. The court accepted the petition for hearing and condoned a 587-day delay in filing the appeal.
On August 2, 2023, a Dhaka court sentenced Tarique Rahman to nine years and Zubaida to three years in prison in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over illegal wealth accumulation and concealing asset information.
Earlier, on September 22, 2023, the Security Services Division under the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a gazette suspending Zubaida’s sentence for one year, following her petition and with the consent of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
Zubaida left Bangladesh with her husband in 2008 and lived in London for nearly 17 years before returning on May 6 this year.
The ACC had filed the case on September 26, 2007, at Dhaka’s Kafrul Police Station, and formally pressed charges in 2008.
