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A bail hearing for Bidisha Siddique, the former wife of late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, is scheduled to be held on Wednesday in a fraud case in which she was sentenced to two years in prison.
The hearing is expected to take place around 11:00am at the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Shahjahan Kabir, Bidisha’s lawyer Moniruzzaman Sabuj said.
He said they would seek bail on condition of filing an appeal and expressed hope that the court would grant her bail.
Bidisha was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined Tk 10,000 in the case on May 20.
She was arrested from a restaurant in Gulshan on August 25 based on a warrant issued following the sentence.
The case was filed with Gulshan Police Station in 2008 over allegations of fraud in connection with the sale of a flat in Baridhara.
