A Shillong court of India yesterday denied bail to BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed.
Quoting Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Ahmed, the party’s Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony told the Dhaka Tribune that Salahuddin was not produced in the court for the hearing as he was ill.
Salahuddin’s lawyer told the court that as the accused was severely ill, he should get bail, but the court denied the petition. The court, however, ordered the authorities to provide treatment.
Salahuddin, who was placed on a 14-day remand in judicial custody, has been readmitted to North Eastern Indira Gandhi Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (Neigihms) barely hours after he had complained of chest pain.
He had been discharged from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier, his counsel SP Mahanta had told the court, which ordered the remand, that his client had been suffering from chest pain and could not sleep since Tuesday.
When Salahuddin was produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate KML Nongbri, he looked weak and he also said the same to the judge, who directed the investigation officer to provide medical treatment.
The BNP leader was arrested on May 12 for entering India without any valid documents and had last week moved court seeking bail for treatment in a Singapore hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment prior to his disappearance from Bangladesh in March.
After his arrest Salahuddin was admitted to the high security ward of Shillong Civil Hospital and was moved to the ICU at Neigihms on May 20.
The Meghalaya police will submit a report on Salahuddin’s arrest tomorrow when his bail application is also likely to be taken up.
