Dhaka, Jan. 16 -- A mobile court at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital fined Turkish Airlines BDT 3 lac for bringing three passengers without covid-negative certificates.

The three passengers returned to Bangladesh from USA with a stopover in Turkey on January 13, said Ahmed Jamil, a magistrate of the mobile court at HSIA.

The three USA-returnee Bangladeshis -- members of the same family -- are well-educated and one of them even works in the health department in the US, Jamil also said.

The three passengers were sent to institutional quarantine.

"It's so unfortunate that those who didn't bring Covid-19 negative certificates are very conscious and well-educated people."

"They are not unaware of what's going on in US r...