Dhaka: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the High Court order rejecting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s appeal seeking reinvestigation into a part of Zia Orphanage Graft case against her.

A four-member bench, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order after hearing a leave to appeal filed by Khaleda Zia’s lawyer, AJ Mohammad Ali, a former attorney general, challenging the High Court order.

Khurshid Alam Khan, an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lawyer, said the Appellate Division with some observations rejected the leave to appeal, which will be disclosed later after receiving the full copy of the order.

With the latest order, there remains no bar to the continuation of trial proceedings of the case against Khaleda by the lower court.

Earlier on March 9 this year, the HC rejected Khaleda’s prayer seeking a fresh probe into a part of Zia Orphanage corruption case against her that she filed on 1 March.

The ACC filed the graft case on July 3, 2008 accusing Khaleda, her elder son Tarique Rahman and four others for misappropriating over Tk 2.10 crore that was received as grants for orphans via a foreign bank.