DHAKA, April 2: The Danish embassy in Dhaka has refused to grant visa to a Jamaat-i-Islami lawmaker, his wife and son, and seized their diplomatic passports for alleged tampering. The embassy seized the passports of Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, his wife Esmat Ara and son A.T Mahedi Chowdhury when they applied for visa on Feb 23. The embassy sent the passports to the foreign ministry the next day with a note. “The passports were retained by this embassy as we found very clear evidence of fraud in connection with the above passports. The expert opinion of the consular section of the British high commission also confirmed this,” said the note. The lawmaker had earlier registered a report at a police station in his constituency and published an advertisement in a local newspaper that said his diplomatic passport had been lost, and that he had applied for a fresh passport to the parliament secretariat on March 1. Accordingly, the secretariat sent the file to the foreign ministry for issuance of a fresh diplomatic passport for the Jamaat MP.
