A mobile court at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport fined Turkish Airlines Tk three lakh for bringing three passengers who didn't have Covid-19 negative certificate.

The three passengers returned to Bangladesh from USA with stopover in Turkey on Wednesday, Ahmed Jamil, a magistrate of the mobile court at HSIA, told The Daily Star today.

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 regarding spread of Covid-19 pandemic.," said the magistrate.

Before leaving the United States, the three passengers went to a doctor who gave them certificate that they don't' have any symptoms of Covid-19.

But none of them underwent the test mandatory to come to Bangladesh. Turkish Airlines knew that if they bring any passenger from Istanbul to Dhaka without having a test report, they would have to pay fine after the flight reaches Dhaka.

They even offloaded ten passengers who wanted to go to Dhaka from Istanbul on Wednesday because they did not have the Covid-19 negative certificate.

But the three passengers from the United States were able to reach Dhaka, due to mistake of persons responsible to carry out check-in duty.