Arrested BNP leader’s wife wants him treated in a third country

PTI
SHILLONG, MAY 19

Arrested Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) spokesperson Salahuddin Ahmed’s wife said her husband required to be taken to a “third country” for better treatment.“My husband is very sick. We will try through legal procedure to take him to some third country for better treatment,” Hasina Ahmed said after meeting him in the high security ward of the Civil Hospital here this evening.
Thanking the local government for providing shelter and treatment to her husband, she said they were yet to finalise on a counsel to assist the family in the court. Salahuddin’s wife was accompanied by BNP functionaries including party office secretary Abdul Latif Johny who had arrived here earlier this week.
Salahuddin, who was arrested here on May 11 for entering India without papers, expressed his desire to return to Bangladesh.
“Bangladesh is my country. Why will I not return to my own country? I did not commit any crime,” he told journalists while going for a CT scan. He was admitted at the local hospital here on May 12 after his arrest for travelling without proper documents.
Doctors attending on him said the senior BNP leader was suffering from kidney and cardiac-related complications for quite sometime, the reasons for which he could not be produced in court. Salahuddin, who faces charges in Bangladesh and against whom the Dhaka Unit of the Interpol has issued a ‘red-corner’ notice, has been booked under Section 14 of the Foreigners’ Act by the police here.