Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Monday rejected a writ petition filed seeking not to harass or arrest the family members of a bridegroom as he married a Rohingya woman who came to Bangladesh from Myanmar being tortured in her own country. The court also ordered the petitioner to deposit Tk 1 lakh within 30 days in the concerned section of the Supreme Court as the cost.
The HC bench of Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury and Justice J B M Hassan passed the order after hearing the petition.
Advocate A B M Hamidul Misbah appeared for the petitioner in the court while Deputy Attorney General Motahar Hossain Saju stood for the State.
Saju said, “According to foreigners act, it’s a crime to bring out someone or to marriage someone from a special area. The Law Ministry has issued a notification in this regard. So, it is contrary to the law to marriage or bring out someone came from Myanmar. They filed the writ petition to avoid arrest or harassment. But the court rejected the petition and ordered the petitioner to deposit Tk 1 lakh as the cost.”
According to the case documents, Babul Hossain, a resident of Singair upazila of Manikganj district, filed the petition not to harass or arrest his family members as his son Shoaib Hossain Jewel recently married a Rohingya woman named Rafisa, 18, who was living in Kutupalong Refugee Camp of Cox’s Bazar.
On October 25 last year, the Law Ministry issued a notification imposing bar to marriage Rohingya women. Babul Hossain challenged the legality of that notice in the writ petition.
According to the writ petition, preparation of marriage of Shoaib and Rafisa faced obstacles from the authorities on September 14 last year. Later, they came to Singair and went elsewhere after police had searched them.
In this circumstance, Shoaib’s father filed the writ petition.
