Fresh Charges Against Former Bangladeshi PM Khaleda Zia

Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s legal woes further worsened with two fresh charges.

Khaleda Zia outside court premises in Dhaka. (Photo: AP screengrab)

• The legal woes for former prime minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia (70) took a turn for the worse, with two fresh chargesheets against her over violence during last year’s anti-government agitation.
  
• Six charges in total have been filed against Zia over the violence in 2015, which saw massive agitation and a death toll of around 100, mostly in arson attacks on passenger buses in Bangladesh.

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• Zia and 50 other leaders and activists of Bangaldesh Nationalist Party were charged in Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court on 29 May.
  

(With inputs from PTI.)