Govt can’t release someone on parole by force: Anisul

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today said the government cannot release someone on parole by force, he or she has to plead for the same.

The minister said these while replying to a question of a journalist on the possibility of release of BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on parole, reports BSS.

“Government cannot forcefully release someone on parole. They have to plead for it, they have to seek parole,” he said.

On Sunday, Awami League acting general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif had said no situation created yet to release BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on parole for treatment.

“The release of Khaleda Zia on parole is not any political issue, it relates to a legal issue . . . But no situation has created to free her on parole,” Hanif told journalists.

Referring to legal procedure of parole, Hanif, one of the spokesmen of AL, said generally the release on parole is eligible for any prisoner, who wants to see ailing relatives or attend funeral ceremony of any relative, but such situation has not created till now.