Jubodal boss barred from going abroad
Immigration authorities disembarked Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, president of Jatiyatabadi Jubodal, from a London-bound aircraft at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city yesterday.
Alal has been barred from going abroad on orders from the higher authorities of the government, sources at the immigration said but they declined to give details.
Talking to The Daily Star, Alal, a former BNP lawmaker, said he was supposed to go to London by a Biman Bangladesh aircraft around 7:45 am to see his ailing wife. His wife went to London on April 29 to see their son studying there.
“I was on board the aircraft but members of National Security Intelligence, immigration and DGFI took me from it only saying this is order of the higher authorities,” Alal said adding he will file a writ petition with the High Court today against this.
Meanwhile, Mir Kasem Ali who is on a list of alleged war criminals of Bangladesh Liberation War landed at the airport by a Qatar Airways aircraft around 5:45 am yesterday, the immigration sources said.
Kasem, executive committee member of Jamaat and chairman of Diganta Media Corporation, left the country for Saudi Arabia via Dubai on March 24, one day prior day of formation of war crimes tribunal and its investigation and prosecution agencies.
Later, the home ministry claimed that it had served the list of alleged war criminals to all airports and land ports so that they could not leave the country. But immigration officials said they received the list after Kasem left here for Saudi Arabia.
Kasem is also the country director of Rabeta Al-Islam, a Saudi Arabia based Islamic NGO, member of Ibne Sina Trust and chairman of Eden Shipping Lines and Keyari Housing.
UNB adds: BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain in a statement yesterday strongly protested and condemned the disembarkation of Alal from the aircraft.
Jubodal instantly held a protest rally in front of the BNP's Nayapaltan central office in the afternoon and brought out a procession protesting of the incident.
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