On Monday (November 9) at noon, Saidur Rahman said, ‘Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed in the student-public uprising, has not applied for a new passport or NID. We received an email from an organization called Matrix Chambers. It contained a request to issue a passport and NID in Sheikh Hasina’s name.’

He said, ‘We do not know whether the request is correct. There is no way to understand that this is a request on Sheikh Hasina’s behalf. Because the email sent by the lawyers’ firm did not contain any document or evidence regarding Sheikh Hasina’s approval ‘authorization’. However, we have sent the email to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.’

Earlier on Monday morning, Reuters news agency published a report on this matter. The report claimed that the deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina applied for a new passport and national identity card (NID) as part of preparations to return to Bangladesh from India.

Meanwhile, in response to the news of Sheikh Hasina’s passport application, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humayun Kabir said that the verdict in Sheikh Hasina’s trial cases has been delivered; Bangladesh will not give a passport to any terrorist. On the other hand, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said that fugitive convicted accused Sheikh Hasina will be brought back to the country through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in accordance with the extradition law.