Salahuddin to seek Indian court order for better treatment
BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed, who is suffering from kidney disease, will soon apply to a court at Shillong in India's Meghalaya for permitting him to take better treatment.
Talking to our Kolkata correspondent, the senior BNP leader said he has been suffering from pyeloplasty disease of kidneys which has turned acute recently.
Salahuddin has been living at a luxury cottage in Shillong after a local court granted him bail in a case filed by the Indian police for trespassing in May 2015.
Around two months after going missing from Dhaka city, Salahuddin was found in Shillong, the capital of north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, on May 12, 2015.
It still remains a mystery how and when Salahuddin, then joint secretary general of the BNP, landed in Shillong after he was allegedly picked up by plainclothes law enforcers from a house in Dhaka's Uttara area on March 10, 2015.
Salahuddin told our Kolkata correspondent that he was admitted to a specialised clinic “Shillong Super Care” thrice in January.
Doctors in Shillong advised him to receive better treatment either at New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences or Medanta Hospital, or Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore soon, Salahuddin quoted doctors as saying.
A doctor of the hospital wishing anonymity said Salahuddin has no alternative but to undergo surgery for kidney disease.
Earlier, Salahuddin underwent surgery on his neck at New Delhi's Medanta Hospital.
He said if the court grants him permission, he will undergo operation to diagnose his kidney disease in February.
Salahuddin's brother Giasuddin yesterday told The Daily Star that Salahuddin's wife Hasina Ahmed had left Dhaka for India to take care of her husband.
Earlier Salahuddin's lawyer applied the court to allow him to receive treatment at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. The court, however, rejected his plea. Instead, he was ordered to take treatment at the NEIGRIHMS in Meghalaya.
Meanwhile, case proceedings against Salahuddin will resume at a Shillong court in early February after a two-month break for winter vacation, prosecutor IC Jha told The Daily Star.
SP Mohanto, lawyer of Salahuddin, said, “We hope the court will deliver its verdict very soon after end of the case proceedings.”