DHAKA: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday threw a legal challenge against the military-backed government's ban on her home coming, court officials said.
Lawyers of Hasina, the Awami League chief who is currently in London, filed a writ petition seeking the court intervention to 'remove all the hurdles' on her return home.
However, a High Court bench comprising judges Abu Nayeem Mohammad, Mominur Rahman and Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury asked them to seek formal permission to file the petition Thursday and move it in court Sunday.
The writ called as 'unconstitutional' the temporary ban on the return of Hasina, who was denied a boarding pass by British Airways authorities two days ago following a request from the interim government in Dhaka.
The Home Ministry last week issued a press note ordering a 'temporary restriction' on Hasina's return fearing that her 'provocative and inflammatory' remarks could destabilise situation in emergency-ruled Bangladesh.
The development came a day after a Dhaka court suspended until late April an arrest warrant issued earlier in connection with a case filed by fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami on the death of six people, they claimed to be their activists, during a bloody political violence on October 28, 2006.
Hasina said she intended to return home to face the 'false' murder charge.
