The Meghalaya police on Wednesday filed charge sheet before a lower court in connection with the investigation into the alleged illegal entry of Bangladesh National party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed, reports Indian newspaper, Statesman quoting PTI.
‘Meghalaya Police have completed investigation into the case and a charge sheet has been filed today,’ a senior home department official told PTI.
The charge sheet, filed in the court of additional deputy commissioner, judicial, slapped charges against Ahmed under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act for entering the country without any valid documents, the official said.
The BNP spokesperson was found ‘loitering aimlessly’ in Golf Link area of the city after which the police picked him and charged him under the Foreigners Act on May 12.
Even as he is serving a provisional jail terms at the Shillong District Jail here, Ahmed is currently admitted at NEIGRIHMS, the region’s only super specialty hospital at Mawdiangd, to get his various ailments treated.
The institute’s medical superintendent A Phukan said the senior Bangladeshi politician was undergoing orthopaedic treatment for his backache and also being treated for his chest pain.
He was admitted and released after the court hearing on May 27 before getting re-admitted again at the institute for diarrhoea and other minor health problems, the official said.
Salah Uddin was picked up from his house in Uttara in Dhaka on March 10 allegedly by unidentified men who introduced themselves as detectives.
Later he was found in Shillong, of Meghalaya state, on May 11 after two months.
Source: New Age