Salahuddin’s wife seeks PM’s help, again

The wife of “missing” BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed today moved a memo seeking the prime minister’s intervention to trace her husband’s whereabouts.

This is the second time Hasina Ahmed wrote a memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her husband who has been traceless for about a month now.

She handed the memo to a Prime Minister’s Office official around 11:15am.

“I believe that my husband was picked up by the law enforcement agencies and I also believe he will come back if they take initiatives,” Hasina told The Daily Star.

Earlier on March 19, Salahuddin’s wife handed over a 3-page document to an office assistance of the Prime Minister's Office around 11:25am.

“She [PM] is also a mother, wife, like me; she can understand my mental situation and ask the law enforcers to produce my husband immediately,” she told reporters later.

The memorandum has also urged the PM to issue “special” guidelines (for the law enforcers) in a bid to trace the BNP joint secretary general.

“If my husband committed any crime or is accused in any case, he should be produced before the court without delay for proper trial,” she added in the memo.

On March 10, some 20 to 30 people detained Salahuddin from a house at Uttara in Dhaka, introducing themselves as law enforcers, especially as Detective Branch of police personnel, reads the document.