Bangladesh’s embattled former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s legal woes further worsened after she was named as the “instigator of violence” in two fresh charge sheets filed in a court here over violence during last year’s anti-government agitation.
Zia and 50 other leaders and activists of BNP were charged in Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Sunday in two cases over violence during the three-month long nationwide blockade called by BNP-led 20-party alliance in which over 100 people were killed, mostly in arson attacks on passenger buses, in the capital and elsewhere.
The new charge sheets have taken to six the count of charge sheets filed against 70-year-old Zia in the cases over the violence. Police and court officials said one of the fresh two cases accused her of instigating party activists to torch two buses in the capital on February 10 and March 3, 2015.
