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Obaidul Qader barred from going abroad

Staff Correspondent
Awami League (AL) Joint Secretary General Obaidul Qader was barred by immigration officials at the 3a International Airport (ZIA) yesterday from leaving the country for India for medical treatment.
Qader was released on September 5 after securing bail on medical grounds from the High Court (HC) in all five cases against him.
The AL leader who spent around 18 months in detention had been undergoing treatment at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).
AL sources said Qader, scheduled to leave for New Delhi via Kolkata by a Jet Airways flight at 9:20am, reached the VIP lounge at the ZIA at 7:45am.
When he proceeded towards the airport immigration after collecting the boarding card, immigration officers barred him from boarding the flight saying they did not receive any instructions about his departure from higher authorities. AL sources added.
When contacted, a senior official at the airport immigration yesterday evening told The Daily Star that Obaidul Qader left the airport without approaching the immigration after spending over an hour at the VIP lounge
'We received instructions from higher authorities not to allow Qader leave the country,” he added wishing anonymity.
Later, Qader returned to the BSMMU and got readmitted.
The AL leader told reporters at the BSMMU that he is a victim of political conspiracy. None has the right to let me die slowly depriving me of proper medical treatment. Qader said.
Qader's counsel advocate AKM Amin Uddin Manik in a statement •aid the home ministry was informed in writing about Qader's departure for New Delhi on September 17 for medical treatment. The minis try verbally informed them that there Was no restriction on his leaving the country
He also said a medical board
headed by Prof Anisul Huq at the BSMMU on September 7 referred Qader to the Apollo Hospital in Delhi for treatment of splinter injuries he sustained in the August 21 grenade attacks on an AL rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.
Amin Uddin also said there is no legal bar to his going abroad. "He is on bail in all the cases filed against him," he said.
He hoped that the government would soon allow him leave for Delhi for medical treatment. Otherwise, Qader might be crippled permanently, he added.
Qader, also a former state minister, was arrested on March 9 last year during the caretaker government's crackdown on corruption suspects.
Meanwhile, 16 former leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in a joint statement yesterday criticised the government for barring Obaidul Qader from leaving the country for medical treatment.
The former BCL leaders include Advocate Bolorarn Poddar, Shahajada Mohiuddin. Rafiqul Islam Korwal, Marufa Akhter Popy, Saifuzzaman Shikhar and Khan Mainul Islam Mostaq.