Meghalaya, India (BBN)-The police have already started interrogating him. He will be produced before a magistrate later in the day,” SP Kharkhrang said.
R Salahuddin Ahmed, senior BNP leader and former Bangladesh minister who was arrested after he had surfaced in Shillong on May 11 since he remain missing in his native country for two months, will be produced in a court in the Meghalaya capital on Wednesday, reports The Indian Express.
Ahmed, who was undergoing treatment since May 12 for cardiac and kidney ailments in the North-East Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) after he was arrested for flouting the Foreigners Act, was released from the hospital on Tuesday after a medical board constituted for the purpose declared him as fit.
We have released him from our hospital yesterday afternoon after a medical board examined him and declared him as fit to be discharged, and handed him over to the police,” Dr AG Ahangar, director of NEIGRIHMS told The Indian Express over the telephone.
Ahmed, who was lodged in the ICU and undergoing treatment for his kidney and cardiac ailments, was taken to the Shillong sadar police station where he was interrogated by the police.
East Khasi Hills district SP M Kharkhrang said Ahmed would be produced before a magistrate on Wednesday afternoon. “The police have already started interrogating him. He will be produced before a magistrate later in the day,” SP Kharkhrang said.
Ahmed, who is also joint secretary and spokesman of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headed by former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, had gone missing in Dhaka on March 10, following which his wife Hasina Ahmed petitioned before the Bangladesh High Court with complaints that he was allegedly whisked away by a government agency.
While the Bangladesh High Court had on March 12 directed the home department in that country to investigate and trace Ahmed out, how he surfaced in Shillong exactly two months later remains a mystery. Police picked him up after some local citizens informed about a person moving about suspiciously in the Golf Links locality in the Meghalaya capital on May 11.
His wife Hasina Ahmed, who is in Shillong, wants to shift the former Bangladesh minister to Singapore where he has been undergoing regular treatment twice a year for his kidney and cardiac problems.
My husband is not safe in Bangladesh. I cannot take him back there.
Instead, if the law here permits, then I want to shift him as early as possible to Singapore, where he has been undergoing treatment for his cardiac and kidney problems for the past 20 years,” Hasina Ahmed had told The Indian Express on Sunday.