Salahuddin missing: HC adjourns hearing on rule
Dhaka: The High Court on Sunday adjourned the hearing till Monday on its rule asking the government to explain why directions should not be given to find out BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed and bring him before it.
After a brief hearing, an HC division bench, comprising Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the order, asking the Attorney General (AG) to submit the reports through affidavit.
During the hearing, AG Mahbubey Alam placed five reports prepared by respondents—Police Headquarters, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Special Branch of Police and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) -- without any affidavit.
While disclosing the contents of the reports, the AG told the court that BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed was not in the hands of the law-enforcement agencies and they have been trying to find him out.
The search drive is still on, said the chief law officer of the government.
Hasina Ahmed, wife of Salahuddin, on March 12 moved the High Court to seek remedy claiming that the law enforcers in plainclothes picked her husband up from an Uttara house in the capital on March 10 night and yet to hand him over to any police station.
Responding to the petition under section 491 of the CrPC filed by Salahuddin’s wife, the HC issued a rule in this regard.
BNP leader Salahuddin had been issuing statements, including those with hartal announcements, on behalf of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, since the arrest of another BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.