Dhaka, Aug. 20 -- The High Court on Tuesday extended the bail of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for one more year in a murder case filed in Cumilla in 2015.

A bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice SM Mozibur Rahman passed the order after hearing on an appeal filed by Khaleda's lawyers seeking extension of her bail.

On March 6, HC granted six-month bail of Khaleda in the case.

Khaleda's lawyer Kaisar Kamal said BNP chief will not be freed from jail as she failed to secure bail in Zia Orphanage and Charitable Trust cases.

Eight people were killed, and 20 others injured, when a petrol bomb was hurled at a bus at Jogmohanpur in Chauddagram upazila in Comilla during the BNP-led alliance's movement on February 3 in 2015. A case was file...