New Delhi, July 12 (Just News): Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s legal consultant Lord Alexander Carlile was denied entry into India.
Carlile, a British national, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday without having obtained the appropriate Indian visa, said official spokesperson at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
He was supposed to visit New Delhi and deliver speech through a press conference at Foreign Correspondents Club on 13 July which was cancelled.
Diplomatic sources said Carlile wants to criticise Bangladesh’s court verdicts and might make statement against the Bangladesh government.
Being informed about Carlile’s plan, government officials had a meeting with officials of Indian High Commission in Dhaka and conveyed its observations, a diplomatic source said.
Both sides agreed that if Carlile makes any statement against Bangladesh government from New Delhi, it might create a problem in Dhaka-Delhi relations.
Lord Carlile, a member of the House of Lords of the British parliament, is a barrister and one of the leading legal experts in the UK.
He was appointed by the UK wing of the party to advise Khaleda’s legal team on 36 cases against Khaleda Zia, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced on 20 March.
The announcement came less than two months after Khaleda Zia was sentenced to five years in jail in the Zia Orphanage Trust case.
(Justnews/ys/1120hr)
