Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said the government is verifying reports that fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is staying in Delhi, has applied for a passport and national identity card (NID).
The government will examine whether a convicted fugitive has any right to apply, he said.
He said this in reply to a question from journalists at the Secretariat on Monday.
“I have also heard, and seen on Scroll News, that the convicted fugitive Hasina has applied for her passport and NID. But we have not yet been able to verify it. The foreign ministry and the law ministry are looking into the matter,” Salahuddin Ahmed said.
The legal aspects of the application will be examined by reviewing the passport law, the citizenship law and the law on national identity cards, he said. Once it has been verified whether the application was made properly and whether there is a legal right to apply, the foreign ministry or the law ministry will speak on the matter.
On Sheikh Hasina’s extradition, the home minister said: “Initially, at this moment, I can say that we have sent a letter through the foreign ministry, under the extradition treaty, to the country where a convicted person has taken shelter, so that she is extradited according to the law. There is no need to say more than that right now.”
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