Wife meets Salah Uddin in Shillong

Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed’s wife Hasina Ahmed on Monday night met him in Shillong Civil Hospital where he has been undergoing treatment in police custody since he surfaced in India two months after going missing from Dhaka.Hasina Ahmed on Sunday night flew to Kolkata from where she travelled to Shillong, capital of the Indian state of Meghalaya, on Monday night to meet her husband.‘She has met her husband,’ Vivek Syiem, superintendent of police (city) of East Khasi Hills in Shillong, told New Age when he was asked whether Hasina Ahmed was given permission to meet Salah Uddin.He also said that Salah Uddin would be produced in a court ‘subject to consent by the physicians’.After staying with her husband for about 15 minutes,

Hasina Ahmed told reporters that Salah Uddin was in ‘bad health’, according of BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony who was present during Hasina’s briefing.
Hasina Ahmed expressed gratitude to the hospital authorities, local police administration and the Indian government for taking care of her husband.
In reply to a question, she said the family would fight legal battle in the case filed against Salah Uddin for intrusion into Meghalaya.
Earlier on the day, Salah Uddin, also BNP joint secretary general, told the media in the hospital that he was ‘dropped’ blindfolded and his hands tied in Shillong after about a 12-hour drive.
Salah Uddin, also a former minister and lawmaker, has been undergoing treatment in Shillong Civil Hospital in police custody since May 11.
Salah Uddin was willing to return home, his party associate Abdul Latif Jony quoted him as telling journalists.
Salah Uddin criticised Interpol’s Bangladesh chapter for reportedly issuing a notice to its Indian chapter to arrest him.
The BNP leader blamed the Awami League-led government for the Interpol red alert saying that the government should not have done it, according to a private TV channel in Bangladesh.
Salah Uddin said he was not absconding or a convicted criminal.
Asked how he had surfaced in Shillong, Salah Uddin said he was left ‘blindfolded’ and his hands ‘tied’ near Shillong Golf Club after probably 12 to14 hours of drive.
He said he had approached some locals to take him to the nearby police station or inform the police about his condition.
But Shillong police earlier said Salah Uddin was found loitering in the Golf Link area in the Meghalaya capital on May 11 and police arrested him on charge of intrusion.
Salah Uddin was admitted to the Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Science in Shillong before being transferred to Shillong Civil Hospital.
The BNP leader had remained untraced since he was allegedly picked up by law enforcers from an Uttara house in Dhaka on March 10.
Earlier, Abdul Latif Jony told New Age over phone from Shillong that Hasina Ahmed had met the city superintendent of police around 7:10pm Monday for permission to see her husband.

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