"All the charges filed or to be filed against me are false. So, I urge you [lawyers] to continue the legal battle," Hasina, a former prime minister, told her income tax lawyer Khandakar Moniruzzaman, who met her yesterday at the sub-jail on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises.

Moniruzzaman told The Daily Star that the AL chief also asked all her lawyers and party workers to not lose heart. "I have not lost my heart even though I know that they [the caretaker government] will punish me somehow. Do not lose your confidence... truth will prevail," he quoted Hasina.

He said he met Hasina to update her wealth statement and he would meet her again today (Sunday) to show her the updated statements. The counsellor said he has included a gun, a pistol and a .22 bore rifle in Hasina's wealth statement to be submitted before the Anti-corruption Commission.

He said the AL president expressed her grave concern over the devastating flood in the country and called upon party leaders and activists to stand by the flood-hit people with whatever they have at their disposal.

Without waiting for any instructions, all leaders and activists of Awami League and its front organisations should help the flood victims as they did during the devastating floods of 1998," said Fazle Nur Taposh, another counsellor, quoting Hasina. Fazle also met Hasina at the sub-jail yesterday.

He said Hasina expressed her happiness as her party formally started distributing relief goods among the flood victims.