The Meghalaya police of India have filed a chargesheet before a lower court against BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed for entering the country without any valid documents.
A senior home department official told this to Indian state-run news agency PTI on Wednesday, reports The Statesman.
"Meghalaya Police have completed an investigation into the case and a chargesheet has been filed today [Wednesday]," the official said.
The chargesheet, filed in the court of Additional Deputy Commissioner, Judicial, slapped charges against Ahmed under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act for entering the country without any valid documents, he added.
The BNP leader is serving a provisional jail term at the Shillong District Jail in Meghalaya.
Ahmed is currently admitted at NEIGRIHMS, the region's only super specialty hospital at Mawdiang diang near here, to get his various ailments treated.
The Institute's Medical Superintendent Dr A Phukan said the senior Bangladesh politician is undergoing orthopaedic treatment for his backache and also being treated for his chest pain.
He was admitted and released after the court hearing on May 27 before getting re-admitted again at the institute for diarrhoea and other minor health problems, the official said.
The BNP spokesperson was found "loitering aimlessly" in the Golf Link area of the city after which the police picked him up and charged him under the Foreigners Act on May 12.
