BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. File Photo

DHAKA, Feb 19, 2025 (BSS) - Senior Advocate Salauddin Dolon today said BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia should be given a symbolic compensation for facing immense sufferings being victim of corrupt state mechanism and unlimited injustice of the legal system in the past.

Dolon, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court, made the comments during an appeal hearing at a five-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed here today.

 "As Begum Zia was a worst sufferer of unlimited injustice of the judiciary, she should have been given a symbolic compensation, not as BNP Chairperson rather as a citizen of the country. If a symbolic compensation is given to her, it would be good for the future of Bangladesh," the lawyer told journalists. 

"I have told the apex court that judiciary is the mainly responsible for polluting the state organizations and developing fascism in the country. The judiciary cannot avoid its responsibility. The situation of the judiciary had deteriorated so badly that the people did not want to go there to seek justice even after killing of their relatives", said the senior lawyer.

He said Begum Khaleda Zia faced injustice as a human being and a citizen of the country. She was awarded imprisonment in connection with a money embezzlement case but when that case came to the Appellate Division it was found that Begum Zia did not embezzle any money at all, Dolon added.  

"So, I argued that the apex court should give a symbolic compensation to Begum Khaleda Zia as she is the worst sufferer of the state corruption. She is also a victim of unlimited injustice of the judiciary.