India denies entry to British MP in the country over "Inappropriate Visa"

New Delhi, July 12: British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile has been denied entry into India on his arrival in New Delhi for not having the appropriate Indian visa.

 

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said Carlile's intended activity in India was incompatible with the purpose of his visit as mentioned in his visa application. Therefore, it was decided to deny him entry into the country upon arrival.

India turned back British parliamentarian Lord Alexander Carlile from the Delhi airport soon after the top British lawyer's flight landed from London on Wednesday. Lord Carlile, who is a legal consultant to jailed former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, was reported to have traveled to New Delhi to address a media briefing to highlight what the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP, calls are "baseless allegations" against her.

Ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has nearly three dozen criminal cases filed against her that the BNP insists, are part of a plot to keep her and her family out of politics.

She was convicted in the first case in February this year. She was sentenced to five years for stealing $ 253,000 in foreign donations received by an orphanage trust set up when she was last prime minister, from 2001 to 2006.