Embattled Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister and main Opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Wednesday faced another setback when a court here issued an arrest warrant against her over a deadly arson attack on a passenger bus during an anti-Government protest campaign last year. The Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order against the 70-year-old chairperson of the main opposition outside Parliament Bangladesh Nationalist Party and 27 others from her party after accepting police’s chargesheet in the case.
Judge Kamrul Hossain Mollah, after accepting the charges against 38 people passed the order in connection with the arson attack in Jatrabari area in January 2015 when Zia’s party spearheaded a violent nationwide campaign to topple Awami league Government.