State Minister for Home explains why Latif not arrested

Explaining why removed minister Abdul Latif Siddique could not be arrested although he is facing a number of arrest warrants, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan  Monday said there were some difficulties in arresting an MP when Parliament is in session. “There’re court warrants for his (Latif’s) arrest…that’s true …at the same time this is also a fact that he still enjoys the parliament membership. As the parliament is in session, the Speaker’s approval is necessary for the arrest of an incumbent MP,” he said. The junior minister made the remarks at his Secretariat office when journalists asked him why Latif Siddique was not arrested at the airport on his arrival from India Sunday night. He, however, parried a further question of the reporters as to when the sacked minister will be arrested, according to a news agency. Latif who arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Kolkata by an Air India flight around 8:40pm left the airport under an escort of law enforcers for an undisclosed location through the domestic terminal of the airport.