HC asks govt to allow ex-FM Morshed Khan to go abroad
Dhaka, Aug 25 (UNB)-The High Court Tuesday directed the government to allow ex-foreign minister M Morshed Khan of BNP to go abroad and return home without any fetters restricting his movement.
Passing the interim order upon a writ petition, an HC bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice Borhan Uddin also issued a rule on the government to explain in four weeks as to why its action preventing the petitioner from leaving the country “should not be declared unlawful”.
Khan was sentenced to 13 years on graft charges leveled against him in the midst of a massive purge during the past army-backed caretaker government that had also thrown behind bars many other top politicians, business tycoons and bureaucrats.
He is now out on bail, as also most of the others jailed during the period, and made an abortive bid to fly on a foreign trip a few days back.
In his petition, the former foreign minister stated that the immigration authorities intercepted him at Zia International Airport on August 23 while going to take a flight to Singapore along with his
wife.
“I was barred from going to Singapore without showing any reason,” he said in petition to the High Court for a remedy.
Advocate Ahsanul Karim appeared for Morshed Khan while deputy attorney-general Mustafa Zaman Islam stood for the government.
Passing the interim order upon a writ petition, an HC bench of Justice Tariq ul Hakim and Justice Borhan Uddin also issued a rule on the government to explain in four weeks as to why its action preventing the petitioner from leaving the country “should not be declared unlawful”.
Khan was sentenced to 13 years on graft charges leveled against him in the midst of a massive purge during the past army-backed caretaker government that had also thrown behind bars many other top politicians, business tycoons and bureaucrats.
He is now out on bail, as also most of the others jailed during the period, and made an abortive bid to fly on a foreign trip a few days back.
In his petition, the former foreign minister stated that the immigration authorities intercepted him at Zia International Airport on August 23 while going to take a flight to Singapore along with his
wife.
“I was barred from going to Singapore without showing any reason,” he said in petition to the High Court for a remedy.
Advocate Ahsanul Karim appeared for Morshed Khan while deputy attorney-general Mustafa Zaman Islam stood for the government.
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