Dhaka, April 6 -- A lawyer has requested the government to impose a travel ban and an investigation into Muhammad Yunus and all advisors of the former interim government, alleging that their move to "privatise" the measles vaccination campaign led to the ongoing deadly outbreak.

Supreme Court lawyer M Ashraful Islam sent the notice via registered post on Monday to the secretaries of cabinet, health, and home, among others.

The lawyer claims the shift from a state-led programme to private sector dependency was an "evil and criminal" act that resulted in the deaths of over a hundred children from measles.

"The vaccination system for diseases like measles has been deliberately moved from the state level to the private sector. This situati...