The wife of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed has not filed any written complaint regarding the disappearance of Salahuddin, says Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Haque.

Shahidul Haque made the statement on Friday after attending a rally organised by the Tangail Community Police.

The IGP said Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Begum’s complaint was oral, not written.

Shahidul Haque said, ‘Police have not arrested Salahuddin. If police arrested, we would place him before the court. It is true that it is the duty of police to find out anyone who is missing. But it is also the duty of the family members to file case or to file written complaint with the police station. But Salahuddin’s family did not do this.’

BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed has remained out of sight since 10 March. Family members and the party claim that plainclothes, claiming them as police, picked him up. But the Rapid Action Battelion and the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said they have not detained or arrested Salahuddin.

Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Begum went to file a General Diary (GD) with the Gulshan and Uttara Police stations on 11 March but the stations did not accept her GD.

on 12 March, Hasina Begum moved to 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 10 March 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.

Later, the court on 16 March, adjourned the hearing on the rule to find out BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed till 8 April.