Home Affairs Adviser MA Matin yesterday said there is no legal bar to releasing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman from jail to facilitate their treatment abroad.
He said the process of freeing Tarique, senior joint secretary general of the BNP, has made headway. "But everything cannot be disclosed right now."
Matin was talking to reporters after a brief meeting with Law Adviser AF Hassan Ariff at his secretariat office.
On Tarique's treatment after he grazed his forehead slipping on the bathroom floor in his prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Monday, Matin said he was getting medical care according to the jail code.
Meantime, backtracking from the statement he made Tuesday, Inspector General (Prisons) Zakir Hassan yesterday said Tarique was getting treatment under the custody of the jail authorities.
"It is our responsibility to provide all types of security to Tarique," he said after a separate meeting with the home adviser at the secretariat.
The IG (prisons) had earlier claimed that Tarique was under the supervision of the BSMMU hospital authorities.
He said he did not make any such comment.
CT SCAN ON TARIQUE NOT NECESSARY
A senior prison official, meantime, said there is no need for any CT scan on Tarique as his injury was not serious.
"We'd moved to carry out a CT scan on Tarique Rahman. But doctors said there is no need for it," Deputy Inspector General (Prisons) Maj Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told The Daily Star yesterday.