Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque has said BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed will be brought back to the country after the resolution of the case filed by the Indian police.
The police chief made the statement in a press conference held at police headquarters in the capital on Sunday morning.
He said: “He [Salahuddin] will be brought back under the Bangladesh-India prisoner exchange agreement ,after the resolution of the case filed against the BNP leader for intruding into India.”
Salahuddin was found "hanging around aimlessly" by some people in Shillong on May 11. Since he had no valid papers, identity proof or travel permit, he was arrested by the Meghalaya police and booked under the Foreigners Act.
He has been undergoing treatment at Shillong Civil Hospital.
Salahuddin's family declared him missing since March 10, alleging the BNP leader, then hiding to evade arrest, had been abducted by law enforcers from a house in Uttara of the capital.
On May 12, Salahuddin talked to his wife Hasina Ahmed from a Shillong hospital. His family is now processing to get Indian visas to meet him. Hasina also sought the government’s support to bring him back.
Indian newspaper The Telegraph Thursday quoted Meghalaya Director-General of Police Rajiv Mehta as saying that Interpol Dhaka had sent a red corner notice to India requesting it to arrest Salahuddin.
But Meghalaya police are not clear if the notice was issued previously or after Salahuddin surfaced in India.