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 the British authorities seeking the extradition of Tarique Rahman to execute the court order,” he said.
The minister was talking to the media after a joint retreat ceremony between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the Benapole-Petrapole frontier.
On May 26, a Dhaka court issued a warrant for Tarique’s arrest in a money-laundering case.
The Home Ministry has recently sent the arrest warrant to the British government through 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.
He also inaugurated murals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and poets Rabindranath Tagore and Nazrul Islam, erected at the security gate at Benapole.