Joynal Abedin Khan :BNP Joint-Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed, who has been ‘missing’ since Tuesday night, is still traceless. The question has been raised from different quarters that who are behind the ‘mysterious missing’ of Salauddin, also a former state minister, and who will take the responsibility? Hasina Ahmed, a former BNP MP and wife of the victim, and the BNP have been alleging that the plainclothesmen picked up Salahuddin from showing detective police’s identity card from a residence in the city’s Uttara.Meanwhile, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque, Director General of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Benajir Ahmed and Dhaka Metropolitan Police’ Detective Branch Joint-Commissioner Monirul Islam have already rejected the allegation and claimed that none of the law enforcing agencies had picked up the BNP leader.Hasina Ahmed requested the law enforcers to find out the identity of the plainclothesmen who had picked up her husband along with his maidservant on the fateful night. She said that she went to the Uttara West Police Station and Gulshan Police Station to file general diary in this regard, but police did not accept her GD. She questioned that why the law enforcers are still playing silent role to rescue Salahuddin? Meanwhile, BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia at a city press conference on Friday demanded the immediate release of her party’s leader. According to the BNP chief, similar incident happened about Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna who was picked up by DB from the capital on February 24. “It (government) earlier denied that Manna was not picked up by law enforces, but around 21 hours later police produced him before the court showing him arrest in a case after making a drama,” Khaleda Zia said.Earlier, BNP Organising Secretary M Ilias Ali along with his car’s driver went into missing from Dhaka on April 17 in 2012. However, the law enforcing agencies are yet to return them to their family members.Many victims’ families claimed that the law enforcers are picking up opposition leaders and activists in the name of sabotage or accused in different cases and later they are making drama of denunciation of detention.According to Odhikar, a human rights body, at least 30 people, including former Organising Secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal Anisur Rahman Talukder Khokon, are the victims forced disappearance by different law enforcement agencies since beginning of the countrywide blockade programme of the 20-party alliance on January 6.Meanwhile, it was learnt that police are looking for the ‘mysterious guest’ who was staying at House-48/B, Road- 13/B, Sector-3, Uttara from where Salahuddin was allegedly picked up by law enforcers. The members of the law enforcing agencies are also hunting for Habib Hasnat and his wife Rumana, who are the tenant at second floor of the house, following the allegation of Salahuddin’s wife. Hasanat is the Deputy Managing director of First Security Islami Bank limited. The newly appointed guard of the house, Akter Ali, said that the ‘guest’ came to the house with Hasnat on March 4.He also said that Hasnat have been living with her second wife Rumana for two years. The first wife of Hasnat has been living along with a son and a daughter in Canada for few years.Hasnat was also the second husband of Rumana and her mother Moriyam Begum was a former lawmaker of Awami League, the guard said.The eyes of the guest were tied up with cloths and he was wearing white T-shirt and pant, the guard further said. DMP’s Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said that police have been looking for the ‘mysterious guest’ to unveil the clue of the ‘missing’ of Salahuddin Ahmed.
