Shabbir Ahmed, who has dual British-Pakistani citizenship, was released from prison this week after his 2012 conviction on multiple counts of rape and sexual offences against girls.

British officials told his victims that Ahmed could not be deported to Pakistan because of a 55-year-old law barring his removal.

However, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has asked the home secretary to review Ahmed’s case following calls for his deportation from the UK.

The BBC reported that Andy Burnham, who is widely tipped as a future leader, was among those calling for Ahmed to be deported.

“We have raised this issue with our counterparts in Islamabad and we are committed to doing everything possible to deport foreign national offenders, and we’re clear that they should have no place in this country,” said a spokesperson for the British premier’s office.

“As previous governments have found, this necessarily involves the agreement of the receiving country - which has not always been possible - but we are currently working across government to explore all possible options in this case.”

The prime minister’s spokesperson stated that the UK would “do everything in our power to remove” Ahmed, but added that it was “clearly a complex case with implications beyond this specific incident”.

The BBC reported that Ahmed was released from prison on Thursday and is now residing in 24-hour staffed accommodation, where he is being monitored with an electronic GPS tag.

The Home Office said any breach of his strict licence conditions would result in his immediate return to prison.

Ahmed went to the UK in the late 1960s and held dual citizenship at the time of his conviction.

The BBC reported that his British citizenship was revoked by the courts after he was jailed, and he was expected to be deported upon completion of his sentence.

Earlier this week, victims of the grooming gang were informed that provisions of the Immigration Act 1971 barred the removal of any Commonwealth citizen who arrived in the UK before 1973 and had been resident in the country for at least five years, added the BBC report.

Ahmed was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2012, as one of nine men convicted in the Rochdale grooming gang trial of offences against children.

As such, the ex-depot price of high-speed diesel (HSD) was set at Rs309.50 for the next week instead of Rs311.47 at present, down Rs1.97.

The diesel price has come down from a peak of Rs520.35 recorded on April 3. Its price had started rising from Rs281 per litre after the US-Iran war broke out on February 28. HSD is considered the most inflationary fuel given its widespread use in freight transportation.

The ex-depot rate of petrol was set at Rs297.53 per litre for the next week against Rs299.50 at present, showing a decrease of Rs1.97. The petrol price had peaked at Rs458.41 on April 3 after beginning its upward trajectory from Rs266 in the first week of March.

The petrol price has undergone successive downward revisions, with a cumulative reduction of about Rs109 per litre.

The government slightly increased the petroleum levy on both products; otherwise, petrol and diesel prices would have dropped by about Rs11 and Rs4 per litre, respectively.

Under IMF conditions, the government doubled the climate support levy to Rs5 per litre with effect from July 1, while correspondingly reducing the petroleum levy. As a result, the petroleum levy on diesel currently stands at about Rs80 per litre.

On the other hand, the petroleum levy on petrol now stands at about Rs70 per litre, in addition to the Rs5 climate support levy.

The government is currently charging about Rs101 per litre on high-speed diesel (HSD) in the form of Rs16 per litre customs duty, in addition to the petroleum levy and climate support levy, as well as the inland freight equalisation margin.

Meanwhile, the total tax on petrol amounts to Rs95 per litre, including Rs20 per litre customs duty in addition to the petroleum levy and climate levy.

The government is also charging about Rs21 per litre as petroleum levy on kerosene and about Rs16 per litre on light diesel oil.

Petrol and high-speed diesel (HSD) are the major revenue earners, with monthly sales of about 700,000 to 800,000 tonnes, compared to just 10,000 tonnes of monthly demand for kerosene.