The High Court on Thursday issued a 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.
Responding to a petition under section 491 of the CrPC filed by Salahuddin’s wife Hasina Ahmed, an HC division bench comprising Justice Quamrul Islam Siddiqui and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the order.The rule was made returnable by Sunday (Mar 15), said the court order.
Khandker Mahbub Hossain and barrister Moudud Ahmed appeared for the petitioner while Attorney General Mahbubey Alam stood for the government.
Hasina moved the High Court to seek remedy claiming that the law enforcers in plainclothes picked her husband up from a Uttara house in the capital on Tuesday night and yet to hand him over to any police station.
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 in early February. – UNB
