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The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh has stayed the order of the High Court Division which earlier released Khaleda Zia on bail. She was arrested in a corruption case. Her lawyers challenged the Government's move to bring her case under emergency provisions. In a series of similar cases, the Appellate Division stayed the High Court's orders. It was argued that the emergency provisions only allow cases to be brought under emergency provisions only when the offence was committed during the emergency period. Although the emergency provisions appears to supports this notion, the Appellate Division is clearly not ready to release any one arrested under emergency law. The emergency rules bar any one arrested under it from getting released under bail.

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