Salahuddin may appear at Shillong court tomorrow
Shillong police is likely to produce Salahuddin Ahmed before a court tomorrow, as doctors at the Indira Gandhi health institute might discharge BNP leader on that day, police and hospital sources said.
A Shillong court on Friday asked police to submit a report on the BNP joint secretary general by May 29 before it, Salahuddin's lawyer SP Mahanta told The Daily Star yesterday.
Meanwhile, Indian State Minster for Home Kiren Rijiju yesterday said the BNP leader would be tried under the existing laws of India for intrusion, and there was no reason to consider this issue from a political point of view.
Addressing the sixth India-Bangladesh Friendship Dialogue at New Delhi, Kiren added that the Indian agencies would take care of the matter.
“If it is a policy matter, where we need to intervene, definitely I will see that. We will take steps, but as long as it's a legal matter and dealt by our security agencies, let them handle the case,” he also said.
Asked about Salahuddin being taken to the court, Vivek Syiem, superintendent of police (city), East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya Police, last afternoon told this correspondent by phone that they were ready to produce the BNP leader as soon as the hospital authority released him.
Quoting a top official of North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (Neigrihms), Subrata Acharjee, India bureau chief of Somoy Television, told The Daily Star that doctors hope Salahuddin might be released on Monday if his health condition does not worsen.
“Doctors of cardiology, nephrology, urology and skin departments yesterday sat in a review meeting to evaluate his [Salahuddin's] health condition. Doctors found his condition stable following the start of his medication since Thursday,” Subrata quoted the official.
Neigrihms authorities said doctors would sit again tomorrow to review Salahuddin's health condition and following their release certificate, police would produce Salahuddin before a Shillong court on the same day.
The Meghalaya police have already brought an ambulance and a jeep at the Neigrihms to take Salahuddin to court, Subrata told this correspondent.
After producing him before the court, the investigation officer is likely to appeal for placing Salahuddin on seven to ten days' remand, a Meghalaya cop hinted.
SALAHUDDIN SEEKS BAIL
Salahuddin has submitted a petition to a Shillong lower court seeking his bail in a case filed against him for intruding into India.
SP Mahanta, lawyer of the BNP leader, submitted the bail petition to the registrar's office of the court on Friday afternoon.
“My client is sick enough. He needs bail, as he wants to go to Singapore for better treatment,” Mahanta told The Daily Star by phone.
Mahanta said no hearing was held in court yet. The court also did not fix any date for hearing the petition. Instead, the court asked local police to submit a report before it on Salahuddin.
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