Sylhet-London Route
HC asks authorities to explain in 10 days
The High Court has issued a rule upon the authorities concerned to explain in 10 days why they should not be directed to launch the Sylhet-London-Sylhet flight of Bangladesh Biman further.
It came up with the rule after hearing a writ petition filed by Advocate Manzill Murshid on behalf of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (UK) Convenor Rahmat Ali on Tuesday.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim also fixed May 3 for holding hearing on the rule.
The civil aviation secretary and the board of directors of Bangladesh Biman have been made respondents to the rule.
Manzill Murshid moved the petition, while Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain represented the government.
The petition said the flight from Sylhet Osmani International Airport to London was launched on February 27, last year and at that time their sufferings were less.
Now the passengers from Sylhet are flown to Dhaka in a domestic flight the day before a night, the petition said, adding they are kept in a Dhaka hotel for the night before they board their flight from Dhaka in the next day.
This takes two days and creates sufferings for the people traveling with their families.
In the same way, passengers coming from London's Heathrow Airport are brought to Dhaka first. They are later sent to Sylhet in a number of smaller domestic flights. This causes problems for the passengers as members of the same family find themselves in separate flights. Their luggage also reaches Sylhet a few days later, according to the petition.
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