Emajuddin for judicial probe

FE Team | Published: May 16, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: May 15, 2015 22:13:05

Accusing the government of resorting to a 'foul drama' over BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed issue, ex-Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Emajuddin Ahmed demanded Friday a judicial probe to unearth how he had gone missing and reached India's northeastern state Meghalaya's capital Shillong, reports UNB.
"The government is resorting to a foul drama over Salahuddin Ahmed's disappearance and tracing out... their (govt's) attitude is impractical and unbelievable. People don't believe in their dirty drama," he said.
Addressing a discussion programme at the Jatiya Press Club, the pro-BNP professional also said, "It's necessary to dig out through a judicial inquiry as to how Salahuddin had been picked up, where he had been kept and how he reached Shillong, and make the information public.
He said the country's people want to know how Salahuddin was taken to Shillong. "If the information about Salahuddin Ahmed's disappearance is hushed up, the future will not forgive the current regime."
He also warned that the government will be held responsible if anything bad happens to BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed.
Swadhinata Forum, a pro-BNP platform, arranged the programme demanding withdrawal of the 'false' chargesheet against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in a bus torching case and the release of detained national leaders.
After nearly two months of his disappearance, Salahuddin was arrested by Shillong police Monday.
According to a BBC Bangla report, Salahuddin on Thursday told two of his relatives who met him at a hospital in Shillong that he had been brought there blindfolded after changing vehicles several times.
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed has told Meghalaya state police that he was confined to a small room of a house for a long time after his abduction from Dhaka.
Special branch officials in Shillong told bdnews24.com that the BNP leader has told them that the kidnappers later blindfolded him and drove him around for a few days, changing vehicles frequently.
But while police had said on Monday after arresting Salahuddin that locals had reported on his suspicious movement and drawn the attention of the police, Salahuddin has told BNP Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony that he had himself asked locals and reached the police.
Jony turned up in Shillong on Friday, having arrived in India earlier in the day.
He was allowed to speak to Salahuddin for about fifteen minutes, after which police started formal interrogation of Salahuddin for the first time since his arrest on Monday.
Doctors in Shillong Civil Hospital are now saying Salahuddin's heart beat is normal but his kidneys are a cause for worry and he has dermatological problems.
Some relatives of Salahuddin have also turned up in Shillong with food and fresh clothes for him.
Special branch officials say Salahuddin had initially told them he could not remember anything after his abduction.
"But now he says he was confined in a small room of a house somewhere in Bangladesh for around two months. Later he was driven out of that house blindfolded and his kidnappers changed vehicles frequently," a police official said.