A legal notice has been served on government to revise the cost of the hajj package within Tk4 lakh per pilgrim instead of Tk6.83 lakh.
A Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Ashraf-Uz-Zaman, also chief coordinator of the Al-Quran Study Centre, sent the legal notice to the religious affairs ministry.
Necessary steps would be taken against the ministry if it fails to refix the hajj expense in seven days, said the notice.
The lawyer said in the notice that the ministry on February 2 this year announced the hajj package, in which the Bangladesh government and Saudi Arabian government set Tk6,83,015 per pilgrim as the cost.
A Bangladeshi will have to spend at least Tk6.83 lakh to perform hajj under government management this year, up by around Tk1.61 lakh from the previous year.
The minimum cost for performing hajj under private management is Tk6.72 lakh this year, about Tk1.5 lakh more than that of the last year.
This year, 127,198 people from Bangladesh will be able to perform hajj.
Among them, 15,000 people will be able to go under government management while 112,198 people under private management will perform hajj.
The Holy Hajj will be held on June 27 subject to sighting of the moon.
On this occasion, a bilateral agreement was signed between the Saudi government and the Bangladesh government on January 9.