The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

It was an emotional moment for former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia when she saw her youngest son Arafat Rahman Koko in wheelchair getting in the courtroom where mother and son appeared yesterday to face a graft charge.

It was their first meeting after nine months since both the mother and son were arrested from their

Cantonment residence on September 3 last year in a change of luck. Since then, they had been detached-and even they could not see each other when they were set free on parole after the death of Begum Zia's mother.

Khaleda entered the courtroom at around 11am. The moment she saw Koko sitting in the wheelchair, she forgot everything around and rushed to her son and embraced with all affection of a mother.

Tears rolled down their chicks as they embraced each other. A melancholic strain pervaded the courtroom for a while, and all present over there looked on at the mother and son's reunion.

Khaleda patted Koko to hold patience and enquired about his health from an attending doctor.

During the court hours, Koko felt respiratory problem and oxygen mask was provided to him immediately.

As his lawyer Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokon drew attention of the court to Koko's illness and his indisposition to attend the court proceedings, he was taken out of the courtroom and kept in a standby ambulance.