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Bangladesh apex court upholds Zia's eviction
Monday November 29, 2010 01:07:40 PM ,
IANS
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Dhaka:
Bangladesh's opposition leader Khaleda Zia Monday lost her appeal
before the country's Supreme Court against her eviction by the
government from her Dhaka cantonment house.
The apex court dismissed the leave-to-appeal petition filed by the
former prime minister. The petition challenged the Dhaka High
Court verdict earlier that had declared valid the government
notice asking her to leave the Dhaka cantonment residence, the
Star Online, website of The Daily Star reported.
Zia had lived in that house since 1972.
The three-member full bench of the Appellate Division headed by
Chief Justice A.B.M. Khairul Haq also turned down the petitions
filed by Zia for staying the higher court verdict and seeking
status quo over the house issue.
The court verdict could be a major political setback for her as
she plans a dawn-to-dusk strike Tuesday against the Sheikh Hasina
government.
Zia Nov 8 filed two petitions with the apex court challenging the
high court verdict that declared as valid the government notice to
her to vacate the Dhaka Cantonment house.
She also filed two other petitions with the Supreme Court Nov 23.
She claimed she was evicted illegally and prayed for status quo
over the house issue and an order so that she can return to the
house.
Zia said she had been "forced out", and the government's action
was criticised as being "crude" by sections of the media.
Zia came to live in the colonial era single-storeyed house as wife
of then deputy chief of the army, General Ziaur Rahman, who later
became the army chief and staged a military coup to grab power.
Gen Rahman eventually became the country's president.
He was killed in another military-led coup in May 1981.
Then president Abdus Sattar, on recommendation of the cabinet,
allotted the house to Zia's family in recognition of the services
to the nation rendered by her husband.
The Hasina government has, however, said the allotment was
illegal. Hasina has said she wants the house to rehabilitate the
families of victims of a mutiny by border guards last year.
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