Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and his wife are not allowed to travel abroad

Trinamool BNP president Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and his wife were denied permission to travel abroad and were turned away from Dhaka airport yesterday after immigration police allegedly wouldn’t allow them to board their flight without authorization from “high-level” authorities.

Shamsher Mobin, when contacted last night, said they were traveling to Bangkok to follow up on his wife’s medical treatment. They were scheduled to take a Thai Airlines flight yesterday around 1:35 p.m.

He alleged that while they were waiting in the VIP room, immigration police took their passports, claiming they needed to make copies.

“They kept our passports for a long time and deliberately delayed us. When I asked, they told me I needed permission from an intelligence agency,” he said.

“I have traveled abroad several times before and never needed permission. The immigration police told me they couldn’t let me go because they didn’t “had not received instructions from higher authorities. She then advised me to seek permission from the highest level of the interim government,” he added.

Mobin said he showed a 2010 court ruling stating that he should not encounter any obstacles when traveling abroad, but that ruling was ignored. He was advised to contact higher authorities.

He then contacted an adviser to the caretaker government, who told him to speak to either the interior adviser or the interior minister. When he contacted the interior minister, he was informed that there were no official restrictions on his movements.

“By that time, the plane had already left. An official later informed me that although I could not travel abroad, my wife was allowed to,” Mobin said.

Another police commissioner on duty at Dhaka airport around 11:30 p.m. refused to comment on the incident, directing the investigation to police headquarters.

Group Captain Kamrul Islam, executive director of Dhaka Airport, said: “I am not aware of this matter. But if he had permission from the special branch, he should have been able to fly.”

Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, former vice-president of the BNP, resigned from all posts in the BNP in 2015. He later joined Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh in 2018 and, in September 2023, became president of the Trinamool BNP, which was previously registered as a party policy. the last national elections.