Japanese woman with two daughters barred from leaving country

Staff Reporter :
Immigration Authorities have barred the Japanese citizen Nakano Erico to take her two daughters abroad during their attempt to leave the country.
Immigration police barred Erico from leaving the country with her daughters around 12:00am after Imran Sharif, the father of the two daughters, informed them the matter.
Imran said that earlier the court issued an order that the two girls won’t be allowed to leave the country.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on June 2 rejected Erico’s petition seeking an order to go abroad with her daughters.
On May 17, Erico’s counsel Sishir Monir appealed to the Appellate Division seeking permission for his
client to travel abroad with her two children. Erico has spent many days in Bangladesh with her daughters and wants to go abroad for a vacation that can be Japan, according to the plea.
On February 13, the Appellate Division ordered disposal of the case within three months over the custody of the two children of Imran and Erico in a family court.
During this period, the court made it clear that the girls would stay with their Japanese mother in Bangladesh. And Imran can meet them but can’t leave the country.
As per the order of the Appellate Division, the two children have been in the custody of their mother since December 12 last year. However, their father can visit them every day at a convenient time between 9:00am and 9:00pm.
On November 21 last year, the HC bench of justices M Enayetur Rahim and Md Mostafizur Rahman ruled that the Japan-born daughters of Imran and Erico will stay with their father.
After 12 years of marriage, on January 18 last year, Erico, a physician, appealed for divorce from engineer Imran over marital dispute.
On January 28, 2021, she also filed a case with a Tokyo family court for the custody of their three children.
But on February 21, Imran returned to Bangladesh with their two girls from Japan. After that a Japanese court passed an order giving the children under their mother’s custody.
On August 19, Erico filed a writ petition in the High Court here seeking custody of the two girls.