British lawyer Lord Alex Carlile, who the BNP has appointed to advise party chief Khaleda Zia’s counsels on her cases, has been sent back from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Soon after his arrival at wee hours of Thursday, the Indian immigration informed that his visa has been revoked.
Carlile’s media team confirmed Bangla Tribune that his scheduled press conference now stands cancelled.
Lord Carlile announced last week that he will be travelling to Delhi, where he will brief the media on how the Bangladesh government used politically motivated false charges to shut Khaleda Zia out of the general election.
Carlile said he preferred to do it in Dhaka but the Bangladesh authorities have kept his visa application pending.
In March this year, the BNP announced the appointment of Lord Carlile for the cases against the jailed party chief.
Since then, Lord Carlile has given interviews to several media outlets over Khaleda Zia but is yet to get a Bangladeshi visa to represent his client in court.
Amid media reports over uncertainties regarding his Delhi visit, Lord Carlile told Bangla Tribune on Tuesday (Jul 10) that his press conference was scheduled for Thursday (Jul 12).
Earlier it was announced that Carlile’s media call will be held on Jul 13 at Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) in Delhi.
FCC authorities confirmed that Lord Carlile’s associates in Delhi tentatively booked their premises for that day, but did not finalise it.
The FCC said that Jul 13 is not available anymore due to a programme to be attended by the South Korean envoy in Delhi.
The club authorities, however, brushed aside ‘political pressure’, as suggested by the media, behind cancelling the tentative booking.

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