Shillong court sends Salahuddin to jail

A Shillong court today sent BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed to a 14-day jail in a case filed over intruding into India.

He will be produced for hearing again after the period, Vivek Syiem, Meghalaya police East Khasi Hills superintendent, told The Daily Star.

Subrata Acharjee, Indian bureau chief of Somoy Television who was present during the hearing, told The Daily Star that police did not seek his remand and Salahuddin.

Meghalaya police produced him at Court and Office of the District and Sessions Judge over a case filed against him under foreigners act around 2:30pm Bangladesh time, Subrata Acharjee said.

The judge ordered a thorough body check-up of the BNP joint secretary general before locking him up.

Earlier yesterday afternoon, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (Neigrihms) hospital discharged Salahuddin declaring his condition stable.

Salahuddin was in police custody since his arrest on May 12 in Shillong after going missing in Bangladesh for two months following what his family claimed detention by law enforcers.

Indian police charged the BNP joint secretary general with intrusion, but waited out for the past 15 days to produce him at court over concern regarding his physical and mental health.

Since arrest, he was admitted at the high security ward of the Shillong Civil Hospital before moved to intensive care unit (ICU) of the NEIGRIHMS last week.