Police form probe body

Dhaka Metropolitan Police recently formed a three-member committee to investigate whether BNP Joint Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed had gone missing or went into hiding.

The committee has started working but it is yet to find any specific information to this end, Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of Detective Branch, DMP said yesterday.

Seeking anonymity, a deputy commissioner of the DMP told The Daily Star that the committee, headed by DMP Joint Commissioner (Crime and Operation) Mir Rezaul Alam, was formed four to five days ago. The two other members are Uttara Division DC Iqbal Hossain and DB (north) DC Shaikh Nazmul Islam.

According to Salahuddin's family and the BNP, a team of 20-30 members of law enforcers, introducing themselves as detectives, picked up the BNP leader from a house in the city's Uttara on the night of March 10.

Following a writ petition filed by Salahuddin's wife Hasina Ahmed with the High Court, police headquarters, DMP, Rab, Criminal Investigation Department and Special Branch of police, submitted five separate reports to the office of the attorney general on March 15, saying that none of the agencies had arrested the BNP leader. 

Seeking anonymity, a deputy commissioner of the DMP told The Daily Star that the committee, headed by DMP Joint Commissioner (Crime and Operation) Mir Rezaul Alam, was formed four to five days ago. The two other members are Uttara Division DC Iqbal Hossain and DB (north) DC Shaikh Nazmul Islam.

According to Salahuddin's family and the BNP, a team of 20-30 members of law enforcers, introducing themselves as detectives, picked up the BNP leader from a house in the city's Uttara on the night of March 10.
Following a writ petition filed by Salahuddin's wife Hasina Ahmed with the High Court, police headquarters, DMP, Rab, Criminal Investigation Department and Special Branch of police, submitted five separate reports to the office of the attorney general on March 15, saying that none of the agencies had arrested the BNP leader.