Hasina on Friday served a legal notice on the British Airways in London seeking £ 1 million in damages for not flying her to Bangladesh.

The legal notice sent to the British Airways managing director in London on Friday said by refusing to provide Hasina with boarding pass British Airways tarnished her image internationally.

As she could not return home a court in Dhaka issued warrant for arrest showing her as a fugitive in a case, chairman of the Awami League UK unit’s legal action committee Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik told reporters at a press conference in London on Friday. Awami League UK branch formed a legal action committee to provide her with financial and legal assistance.

Hasina was emotionally hurt by the incident and the extent of damage was estimated at £ 1 million equalling Tk 13.70 crore, Manik said.

The legal notice said an airliner might take cognizance if the immigration of a country prohibited the airliner to carry a passenger. But in Hasina’s case, Bangladesh immigration did not put any bar on her homecoming. The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh in a letter informed the British Airways about the ban, but CAAb has no authority to ban a foreign airways to carry a passenger.

When an explanation was sought from the British Airways before serving the legal notice the British Airways said the article 7 of passenger carrying rules poses a bar on carrying any foreign passenger or give entry into the country following request by the country concerned. But article 7 does not say that a citizen could not be carried to his/her country. Hasina faced obstruction in returning to her country.

Manik told reporters Bangladesh was enjoying rule of law now and any breach of law there is being seriously dealt with and that no existent law can stop Hasina from returning home.

 

© The Bangladesh Journal

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