Law enforcers picked up Salahuddin, wife insists

Reiterating the claim that BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed was picked up by law enforcers, his wife today sought the prime minister’s intervention again to trace her husband immediately.

“I have proof that the law enforcement agencies picked up my husband. And I believe that I will get back him if the prime minister orders the law enforcers in this regard,” said Salauddin’s wife Hasina Ahmed.

She made the appeal to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while addressing a press conference at National Press Club in Dhaka.

Hasina Ahmed also called upon the countrymen to help trace the whereabouts of the BNP leader.

“Eye witnesses of the incident like security guards and domestic helps of my house have gone disappeared. I could not trace them,” she claimed.

On Thursday, the wife submitted a memorandum to the PM, seeking her intervention to trace her husband.

According to the family of Salahuddin and BNP, a team of 20/30 members of police, detectives and Rapid Action Battalion picked up the joint secretary general of the party along with his two staff, including a woman, on March 10 from  a house in the capital's Uttara.

Following a writ petition filed by his wife with the High Court, law enforcement agencies submitted five separate reports to the attorney general office on March 15 saying that none of the agencies had arrested the BNP leader.

The reports were submitted by the offices of the inspector general of police, director general of Rapid Action Battalion, Criminal Investigation Department, Special Branch of Police, and Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Salahuddin, a former state minister, frequently announced hartals by issuing press releases on behalf of the BNP-led 20-party alliance.