Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir on Wednesday said the British government has been requested to extradite BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman to help execute the court order against him.
“The Home Ministry has sent a letter to British authorities seeking the extradition of Tarique Rahman to execute the court order,” he said.
The minister was talking to reporters after a joint retreat ceremony between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Benapole-Petrapole frontier.
On May 26, a Dhaka court issued a warrant for the arrest of Tarique, also BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s eldest son, in a money-laundering case.
The Home Ministry has recently sent the arrest warrant to the British government through the diplomatic channel requesting it to send back him.
Earlier, MK Alamgir and his Indian counterpart Sushilkumar Shinde inaugurated the glittering and dazzling spectacle of the joint retreat ceremony in the afternoon.
Modeled on the lines of the world famous crowd-pulling retreat ceremony being held between BSF and Pakistan Rangers at Attari-Wagah in Amritsar, Punjab, the ceremony at Benapole-Petrapole saw the BGB-BSF men conduct the drill in unison and synchronised coordination in full regalia at sunset, lowering the respective national flags.
Speaking on the occasion, the home ministers of the two countries expressed the hope that the retreat ceremony will help strengthen friendship and amity between the border forces as well as general people.
Later, MK Alamgir inaugurated murals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and poets Rabindranath Tagore and Nazrul Islam erected on the security gate at Benapole.
Source: UNB Connect
