Staff Reporter :
Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque said that none of the members of law enforcers had picked up BNP’s Joint-Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed.
“We are looking into the matter as to how he (Salahuddin) became traceless and where he is staying now,” the IGP said, rejecting the allegation of arresting the BNP leader. AKM Shahidul Hoque said this while addressing a seminar on ‘Contribution of Police to the Liberation War and Role of Police in Upholding Democracy and Human Rights’ organised by a non-government social organisation ‘Journey’ at the Dhaka University’s Senate building on Saturday.
He said that police are yet to get any information about missing Salahuddin Ahmed adding Police are trying to unveil the mystery of the missing of the BNP leader.
According to the family of Salahuddin and the BNP, plainclothes men picked up him showing DB police identity cards from Uttara in the capital around 10:15pm on March 10.
Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Ahmed said that she went to the Uttara West Police Station the next day, but police did not recorded accept her general diary in connection with her husband’s going “disappeared”.
Following a petition submitted by her, the High Court on Thursday asked the government to explain as to why it should not be directed to trace and produce the BNP leader in the court at 10:30am by today (Sunday).
