Bangladesh’s former overseas minister Hassan Mahmud and ex-state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak have been detained on Tuesday on the Dhaka airport whereas making an attempt to flee the nation, a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the nation following lethal protests towards her authorities.
Mahmud went to Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal Worldwide Airport to ‘catch a flight en path to Delhi,’ an Airport Aviation Safety (AVSEC) official was quoted as saying by the Dhaka Tribune newspaper.
He was detained on the airport whereas making an attempt to flee Bangladesh, the official added.
Mahmud served because the overseas minister within the deposed Hasina authorities.
Based on media reviews, the previous overseas minister earlier tried to flee via a land port with India however was not allowed to cross the border.
His detention got here hours after former state minister for publish, telecommunication and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak was barred from leaving the nation by airport authorities.
Palak was detained on the airport and handed over to the Air Pressure authorities who’re at present in-charge of dealing with the safety system of the airport.
Earlier reviews claimed that a number of prime leaders and lawmakers of Hasina’s Awami League and cupboard ministers left the nation forward of her departure.
Awami League basic secretary and highway transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader left the nation on Sunday evening.
Ex-law minister Anisul Huq left the nation to unknown vacation spot forward of Hasina’s resignation, his private aide stated.
The deposed premier’s personal trade and funding adviser and lawmaker Salman F Rahman additionally fled the nation on Sunday evening, in line with his aides, who nevertheless, couldn’t affirm which nation he was heading to.
Dhaka South Metropolis Company Mayor and Hasina’s nephew Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh left Dhaka on a Biman flight on Saturday morning with aviation sources saying he boarded a Singapore-bound plane. Controversial lawmaker Shamim Osman additionally fled the nation final week.
Former training minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury and native authorities, rural growth and cooperatives minister Md Tazul Islam left the nation via the airport.
Former finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali and sports activities minister Nazmul Hassan Papon additionally left the nation, sources stated. Moreover, former MP of Munshiganj-3 Mrinal Kanti Das and supreme court docket decide Md Badruzzaman additionally left the nation.
A number of leaders of Awami League’s scholar entrance ‘Chhatra League’, together with its president and basic secretary, additionally left the nation on Monday.
A number of different ministers left their official or personal residences as the federal government was ousted following the violent protests over a quota system for presidency jobs.
In the meantime, the Supreme Courtroom Bar Affiliation President AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon referred to as on India to arrest Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, and ship them again to Bangladesh.
“We need to preserve relationship with the folks of India. Please, arrest Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who fled the nation, and ship them again to Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina has killed many individuals in Bangladesh,” Khokon, who can also be a joint secretary basic of the Bangladesh Nationalist Get together, was quoted as saying by the Each day Star.
