Law Minister said no legal scope for Khaleda to go abroad: Home Minister
The law ministry has said that BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has no legal scope to go abroad for medical treatment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today.
He said this while talking to media at the Secretariat.
Khaleda Zia's younger brother Shamim Eskander gave a letter seeking permission in this regard following which the law minister has given his opinion, the home minister said.
"We are studying that opinion. If we feel the need, we will consult more," he said.
"The law minister has written that there is no legal opportunity," he said in the reply to a question.
"So, you must have understood our position. We will now decide the next step through discussion," he also said.
"We took measures from a humanitarian aspect. Khaleda Zia is a convict and her sentence was being carried out. We were giving her the highest medical care. She was receiving treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital. However, as her younger brother appealed to us, the prime minister suspended her sentence on humanitarian grounds and arranged for her to be treated at home, in order to give her a better chance. There were instructions that she could take treatment anywhere in Bangladesh. Now her younger brother says that he will take her abroad. The opinion of the law minister is that there is no scope for this in the law," the home minister said.
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