<span style="color: #222222;">Bangladesh's imprisoned former prime minister and opposition BNP leader Khaleda Zia on Sunday challenged an election commission order disqualifying her from contesting the upcoming general election. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Zia's counsel Nowshad Jamir said they have filed three separate writ petitions in the High Court in Dhaka. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Jamir said, the petitions sought the High Court directive to overturn the illegal Election Commission decision that disqualified her from contesting the polls. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The development came a day after the EC rejected Zia's appeals challenging the cancellation of her nomination papers by returning officers as she intended to contest the December 30 polls. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The EC rejected her plea a week after returning officers scrapped the nomination of Zia and several other high-profile politicians as they were convicted by courts on graft and other charges or due to technical flaws in their nomination papers.</span><br />