Ways to bring back convicts from abroad discussed

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The first meeting of the reconstituted Task Force headed by Law Minister Shafique Ahmed discussed Tuesday ways and means to bring back the absconding convicts of the Bangabandhu murder case and convicts of other cases from abroad, reports UNB.
Among others, Home Minister Sahara Khatun and Foreign Minister Dipu Moni also attended the meeting held at the law ministry.
The nine-member Task Force was formed on March 28 following a Presidential order that abolished the previous Task Force formed on October 10, 1996.
The members of the newly constituted Task Force include home minister, foreign minister, attorney general, secretaries to the ministries of home affairs, foreign affairs, and law, justice and parliamentary affairs, IGP Nur Muhammad and DG of National Security Intelligence (NSI).
The Task Force has been mandated to make a list of the convicts hiding abroad, detect their locations by using appropriate sources, determine the course of bringing the absconding convicts back home and oversee the process of bringing them back.
If any absconding convict obtained foreign nationality, the Task Force will also work out the ways of bringing them back home.
After the first meeting, the law minister briefed journalists.