The High Court in Bangladesh on Sunday issued a rule on the government to explain within five days why it would not be directed to produce the immediate past prime minister Khaleda Zia in court to show that she is not detained or confined in her cantonment house.
A High Court bench of Justice MA Wahhab Mian and Justice M Emdadul Haque, however, passed no interim order, although the petitioner’s counsels sought an order on the interim government not to send the BNP chairperson out of the country.
Seeking the interim order, the petitioner’s counsel Rafiqul Islam Miah told the court, referring to newspaper reports, that the government might force Khaleda to go abroad even before the final hearing in the case.
