Salahuddin back in cop custody
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed will be produced before a Shillong court today in a case filed for trespassing, according to Meghalaya police.
He was taken into police custody in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya yesterday after hospital
authorities discharged him.
M Kharkrang, superintendent of police of East Khasi Hills district in Meghalaya, said Salahuddin would be produced in the court tomorrow (today), reports our Delhi correspondent.
“We have taken Salahuddin into custody in the afternoon today [yesterday] for completing necessary procedures,” the SP said.
Kharkrang said Salahuddin was discharged after being declared “stable” by the authorities at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) at Mawdiangdiang, about 12km away from Shillong.
The BNP leader's counsel SP Mahanta said Salahuddin was discharged yesterday in the afternoon.
Another top official of Meghalaya police told The Daily Star that they would quiz the BNP leader at Shillong Sadar Police Station tonight for intruding into Indian territory on May 11.
Vaskar Borgohain, acting superintendent at the NEIGRIHMS, told the local media that the condition of Salahuddin, who was suffering from kidney and heart diseases, was now “stable”.
Subrata Acharjee, India bureau chief of Somoy Television, confirmed this to The Daily Star, quoting Vaskar.
“After examining all the medical tests on him [Salahuddin], a medical board of NEIGRIHMS opined that the patient's physical condition was stable,” Subrata quoted Vaskar as saying.
The BNP joint secretary general was shifted to the specialised medical institution from Shillong Civil Hospital for better treatment on May 20.
Salahuddin's wife Hasina Ahmed on Friday filed a petition with a Shillong lower court, asking it to allow her husband to go to Singapore for treatment. The court, however, did not hold any hearing on that and asked the local police to submit a report on Salahuddin by May 29.
Salahuddin was picked up from a house in the city's Uttara on March 10 allegedly by unidentified men who introduced themselves as detectives.
He was found in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya State, on May 11 after going missing for around two months.
Shillong police filed a case against Salahuddin under Foreigners Act for trespassing.
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