Tarique's wife Dr Zubaida Khan Rahman and her mother Syeda Iqbal Mand Banu reached the jail gate at 4:15pm and met Tarique in the senior jail superintendent's room.

They talked for around 30 minutes in presence of the deputy jailer and an official of the Special Branch (SB) of police.

"He denied meeting Giasuddin Al Mamun in the jail as reported in a newspaper recently," Tarique's lawyer Ahmed Aazam Khan told The Daily Star.

Aazam accompanied Zubaida and her mother but could not meet the senior joint secretary general of BNP as he had no permission.

Asked if the three talked about the possibility of Khaleda going abroad or the extortion case against Arafat Rahman Koko, the family sources replied in the negative.

They said Tarique mainly enquired about the health of his mother and his younger brother Koko. He also wanted to know if their daughter Zaima Rahman was attending school regularly.

Zubaida and her mother wanted to know about his health as he appeared to have grown thin. The former prime minister's eldest son still feels pain around the waist, they added.

Meanwhile, the jail authorities said Tarique has been kept alone in one of the 12 cells at Champakoli Building.

"For security reasons, we have kept the two cells next to his vacant," Deputy Inspector General (prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddique told The Daily Star.

Tarique was arrested on March 9 at his mother's cantonment residence.