Bangladesh's embattled former premier Khaleda Zia has surrendered before a local court that granted her bail in graft and defamation cases. <br/><br/>The court had issued an arrest warrant against her a week ago.<br/><br/>Surrounded by her party activists, Zia came to the court in old Dhaka and surrendered before the judge, a day after she returned home from London after a three-month visit.<br/><br/>After granting the bail, the court held a hearing wherein she gave an hour long statement claiming her innocence in the graft cases. The judge fixed October 26 as the date for the next hearing.<br/><br/>She is being tried for inducting in her 2001-2006 cabinet the people who were opposed to the country's independence and committed crimes against humanity by siding with the Pakistani<br/>troops.<br/><br/>