Bangla ex-minister Salahuddin Ahmed acquitted of all charges

  • | Saturday | 27th October, 2018

"Our case was that Ahmed was the victim of a kidnapping and a kidnapped victim cannot be accused of a crime," he said. "The prosecution failed to prove their case," Ahmed's lawyer, SP Mahanta, said. Ahmed was then the BNP spokesman. However, Ahmed's counsel claimed that the politician had been kidnapped and spirited over the border. In the Khaleda Zia government, he had been the communications minister from 2001 to 2006.

SHILLONG: Former Bangladesh minister and influential leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Salahuddin Ahmed , who was "found loitering aimlessly" in the Golf Links area of Shillong three years ago and arrested for allegedly not having valid documents, was acquitted of all charges on Friday.The court of judicial magistrate first class, DG Kharshiing, ordered his safe and early return to his native country. Ahmed's release is expected to have considerable effect in the neighbouring country, which goes to the polls towards the end of this year.Ahmed had been charged with entering India illegally under Section 14 of the Foreigners Act, 1946. However, Ahmed's counsel claimed that the politician had been kidnapped and spirited over the border. "The prosecution failed to prove their case," Ahmed's lawyer, SP Mahanta, said. "Our case was that Ahmed was the victim of a kidnapping and a kidnapped victim cannot be accused of a crime," he said. Ahmed's family had alleged that some men of the Bangladesh Police detective branch picked him up from a house in Dhaka on the night of March 10, 2015. Ahmed was then the BNP spokesman. In the Khaleda Zia government, he had been the communications minister from 2001 to 2006.

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