Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salah Uddin Ahmed, who surfaced in the Indian state of Meghalaya two months after going missing in Dhaka, told a visitor from his party on Thursday that he needed better treatment.
Salah Uddin is undergoing treatment at a hospital in the Meghlayan capital of Shillong in police custody.
BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony met Salah Uddin, also the party’s joint secretary general, at Shillong Civil Hospital on Thursday night, according to a report published in the Shillong Times on Friday.
‘Jony said that Salah Uddin conveyed to him that he was not keeping well and [he needs] further medical treatment in some other hospital. He is taking medicines as per the prescriptions of a doctor from Singapore for heart and kidney ailments,’ the newspaper said.
Salah Uddin on Thursday thanked the Indian government for giving him shelter and medical treatment after his arrest in Meghalaya on Monday.
Meanwhile BBC Bangla service reported on Friday referring to some unconfirmed police sources that Salah Uddin had told Meghalaya intelligence police during interrogation on Thursday that he had been kept in a congested room at a place for nearly two months before being taken to Shillong by changing transports.
Meghalaya intelligence police for the first time on Thursday interrogated Salah Uddin for nearly two hours.
After a brief meeting with Salah Uddin, a family member told New Age on Friday night that his physical condition seemed ‘bad’ and that he needed ‘better treatment’.
‘He is guarded by police in the hospital and his food is being served after examination,’ the visitor said, adding that the police had said that he would be produced before a local court after his condition improves.
On Thursday, there was a flurry of activities in Shillong following the arrival of a number of Salah Uddin’s aides and associates, the Shillong Times reported adding that there were already talks of his seeking political asylum in India.
‘A senior home department official said that the BNP leader can seek asylum in India provided that he writes to the centre [New Delhi] citing that he was harassed by the government forces [in Bangladesh].’
He, however, said that as far as the issue of crossing the border without travel documents is concerned, the law would take its own course.
Salah Uddin who was found in Golf Link area in Shillong on May 11 was detained by Meghalaya police on charge of intrusion under foreigners act, according to the Meghalaya police.
Salah Uddin had been missing since March 10 after allegedly being picked up by the law enforcement agencies from a residence in Uttara in Dhaka city.
Source: New Age
