Law Minister Anisul Huq today said there is a way to bring
Bangabandhu's self-confessed killer Noor Chowdhury back to the country and therefore Bangladesh government is holding talks with its Canadian counterpart.
But the “way” cannot be disclosed at this moment, the law minister said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who talked to the Canadian government
on Chowdhury’s deportation during her visit there, will disclose details
about the way once she returns home.
The law minister was talking to reporters after attending the
inauguration of a training course for joint district judges as chief
guest at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in Dhaka.
Replying to a question, Anisul Huq told reporters that there was a
law in Canada which does not permit the government to send a death row
convict back to a country where there is a provision of death sentence.
Earlier in the programme, the minister urged the lower court judges
to discharge their judicial function with sincerity and honesty to
establish rule of law and justice.
Yesterday, Anisul Huq said the recent media report about the expulsion of Chowdhury from Canada was false.
Recently a report appeared in media that Canada has cancelled an
asylum plea of Chowdhury and ordered his deportation. The reporters
enquired the minister about steps taken by the Bangladesh government to
bring back the killer.
Among the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, five were hanged on January 28, 2010.
Another six death-row convicts -- Abdur Rashid, Shariful Haque Dalim,
Noor Chowdhury, Moslemuddin, Rashed Chowdhury and Abdul Mazed -- are
now hiding abroad. Their cohort Abdul Aziz Pasha died in Zimbabwe in
2001.
