DHAKA: Bangladesh's principle restriction pioneer Khaleda Zia went on trial Monday accused of stealing $650,000 in two debasement cases that could see her imprisoned forever if discovered liable.
Zia, the pioneer of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) who twice served as leader, was pardoned from going to the hearing on security grounds.
Be that as it may the opposition to debasement court judge dismisses her attorneys' ask for that the case be put off after an arrangement of deferrals, and her trial got under route at an alternative court set up close to Dhaka's old Mughal-time quarter.
"After such a large number of postponements we've at last had the capacity to begin the trial today," lead prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain told news hounds.
"The case has as of now been deferred 40 times since the court acknowledged the charges against her years back," Hossain said.
Zia and three of her helpers are blamed for siphoning off 31.5 million from a magnanimous trust named after her late spouse Ziaur Rahman, a previous president who was killed in 1981.
She is likewise blamed for heading a gathering of five individuals, including her eldest child, in stealing 21.5 million taka — stores which were intended to go to a shelter set up in memory of her late spouse.
Zia has called the charges politically inspired and went for obliterating the BNP, which has promised to topple the administration of her chief adversary Prime Minister Sheik Hasina.
On Monday her attorneys said they had looked for a further deferment on security grounds because of an across the country strike called by restriction parties.
"However the judge dismisses our advances and began the hearings in her nonattendance," Zia's attorney Masud Talukder told columnists.
A week ago Bangladesh's most noteworthy court made room for the begin of the trial in the wake of releasing two of her bids looking for suspension of the cases.
The trial was suspended until October 13 after the first arraignment witness, an official with the nation's against debasement organization, started giving confirmati
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