The wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed wants to take her husband to Singapore for better treatment.
“As he is sick, I want to take him to Singapore for better treatment,” Hasina Ahmed told journalists at Shillong Civil Hospital in the Indian state of Meghalaya after meeting her husband yesterday morning.
The former state minister has been receiving treatment there under custody since May 11.
Subrata Acharya, India bureau chief of private TV station Shomoy TV, said the hospital authorities handed over the medical reports of Salauddin to police yesterday afternoon. Dr Razen, joint director at the hospital, in his report said Salauddin had been suffering from heart and kidney diseases. He developed fresh urological symptoms.
BBC Bangla service reports: Salahuddin’s wife told the media that they wanted to take the BNP leader to Singapore as he received treatment there for three years. “He had a heart surgery. Besides, he underwent coronary artery stenting thrice. All the medical procedures were performed in Singapore.”
Salahuddin also received treatment there for kidney disease, she added.
Meanwhile, Hasina was planning to hire senior advocate SP Mahanta of Meghalaya High Court to defend her husband in the case filed for trespassing into India.
On Monday, the local administration appointed lawyer IC Jha as the public prosecutor (PP) in the case. Police have supplied all the related documents to the PP, told journalists presented the hospital to The Daily Star.
Meghalaya police arrested Salahuddin on May 11 when was “roaming around” in Golf Links area of Shillong nearly two months after he went missing. Shillong police sued him under the foreigners act for not carrying any valid travel documents.
Reaching Shillong on Monday, Hasina met her husband at the hospital.
Salahuddin’s family members and the BNP complained that plainclothes law enforcers picked up the BNP joint general secretary from a house in the capital’s Uttara on March 10. But the law enforcement agencies and the government refuted the allegation.
GOVT WANTS HIM BACK HOME
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said it would be possible for the government to bring back Salahuddin as the Indian government will hand him over to Bangladesh after completion of legal procedures.
“He is a Bangladeshi. We always want him to come back home. It doesn’t depend on us. Rather, it depends on the Indian government…. Our foreign ministry has been communicating with them,” he told the newsmen at his secretariat office.
Source: The Daily Star
