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Bangladesh's erstwhile president Abdul Hamid, who served 2 presumption during deposed premier Sheikh Hasina’s regime, returned to the state connected Monday (June 9, 2025) aft receiving aesculapian attraction abroad.
The 81-year-old ex-president returned from Thailand a period aft his “secret departure” sparked protests successful Bangladesh for being allowed to permission contempt being accused successful a execution case.
“He landed present successful predawn hours connected a Thai Airways flight. He near the airdrome connected completion of required migration formalities that took astir an hr and a half,” an authoritative of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) told reporters.
Hamid returned similar different mean passengers, said HSIA Executive Director Group Captain SM Ragib Samad. Private TV channels besides shared footage of his car leaving the airport.
He near Dhaka connected May 8 done the aforesaid airdrome aft completing the required formalities but his quiescent departure sparked large protests.
Leaders and activists of the student-led National Citizen Party (NCP), which led past year’s convulsive question that ousted erstwhile premier curate Hasina’s Awami League government, said authorities fto Hamid "flee” contempt being accused successful a execution case.
Home Affairs Adviser Retd Lt Gen Jahangir Alam Chowdhury had vowed to measurement down if helium failed to instrumentality punitive enactment against the officials involved, claiming helium was unaware of the departure astatine the time.
Following the protests, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’s interim authorities formed 2 enquiry committees, 1 of which comprised 3 advisers.
The authorities besides suspended 2 constabulary officers and withdrew different from his duty successful airdrome migration connected charges of “negligence of duty”.
During a regular sojourn to a constabulary presumption successful the superior connected Monday, location advisor Chowdhury said that the question of Hamid's apprehension upon his accomplishment did not originate arsenic determination was nary warrant against him.
He added that an probe into the lawsuit was underway and Hamid would look ineligible actions if helium were recovered blameworthy of committing immoderate crime.
Media reports and sources adjacent to Hamid said helium was diagnosed with crab and was getting treated successful Bangkok.
"The erstwhile president went to Thailand for aesculapian treatment. We allowed it arsenic determination is nary tribunal bid against him oregon embargo by immoderate agency," the Daily Star paper reported astatine that time, quoting an unnamed source.
Hamid is 1 of the accused successful a execution lawsuit successful his hometown successful bluish Kishorganj. The lawsuit was lodged successful transportation with past year's convulsive movement, besides dubbed the July Uprising, led by Students against Discrimination (SAD), a ample portion of which aboriginal emerged arsenic NCP.
Deposed premier Hasina, her expatriate lad Sajeeb Wajed Joy and girl Saima Wazed Putul, stationed successful New Delhi arsenic the WHO determination manager for Southeast Asia, were besides named successful the case.
The NCP and SAD called Hamid a “cohort” of Hasina though helium completed his word months up of the ouster of the past authorities connected August 5, 2024.
Published - June 09, 2025 05:20 p.m. IST
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