Jalil leaves for
Courtesy New Age 4/3/08
The ailing Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil, out of jail on parole, left Dhaka for
A Singapore Airlines flight carrying Jalil took off from the
Tight security measures were taken as a wheelchair-bound Jalil arrived at the airport straight from his Gulshan residence at 10:45pm.
Jalil, who is suffering from heart and kidney problems compounded by diabetes, will take treatment at
As his health condition deteriorated, the interim government set him free on a 30-day parole after 263 days in custody.
Jalil, who had been undergoing treatment under jail custody in
Deputy inspector general of prisons Major Shamsul Haider Siddique accompanied him to his Gulshan home, where Jalil stayed with his family for a couple of hours.
After coming out of the hospital cabin, he thanked the government for allowing him to have treatment abroad.
‘I am critically ill. The government has permitted me to have treatment abroad and I thank them for it. I seek blessings from the countrymen and thank the media for their support to me’, Jalil told reporters on the sixth floor of the hospital. Awami League leaders Tofail Ahmed, Abdur Razzak, Suranjit Sengupta, Syed Ashraful Islam and Sahara Khatun were among the leaders who visited Jalil at the hospital. Workers’ Party general secretary Bimal Biswas, Communist Party president Manjurul Ahsan Khan, general secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim and Samyabadi Dal general secretary Dilip Barua also met him at the hospital.
The government released Jalil on a 30-day parole on Sunday night to enable him to have better treatment of his malfunctioning kidneys and some other complications abroad. The government, however, imposed a number of conditions for the 30 days of his being on parole.
Amid tight security, he was taken to his Gulshan home and no political leaders or activists were allowed to enter his residence as per the conditions attached to his parole.
Hundreds of party leaders and activists began thronging the hospital since morning and a number of leaders were allowed to visit him. Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon, Awami League leaders Mostafa Jalal Mohiuddin, Dr Dipu Moni and other leaders were refused permission to enter his house.
The DIG prisons, Shamsul Haider Siddiquie, told reporters that Jalil was being sent to
Jalil was arrested at his Mercantile Bank office at Dilkusha in
The government brought no specific charges against him in more than six months after his detention for his alleged bid to ‘destabilise’ the country by making ‘provocative statements’.
The Anti-Corruption Commission lodged a case with Ramna police station accusing Jalil of concealing information in his wealth statement on December 18, five days after the High Court declared his detention illegal and ordered the jail authorities to release him if there was no case pending against him.
Later Jalil was shown arrested in the case on January 1, 2008. Earlier his name appeared on the third list announced by the ACC on May, 2007.
Jalil was admitted to
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