India court allows BNP leader Salahuddin to take treatment outside Shilong

A court in Shillong of India's Meghalaya today allowed BNP standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed, who is suffering from kidney disease, to take better treatment outside the state.

Shillong's District and Sessions Judges Court of Daphira Sohtun granted him the permission after Salahuddin prayed to the court for taking better treatment in any specialised hospital in any other state except Meghalaya.

Talking to our Kolkata correspondent, the senior BNP leader said that he came to know the court order but was yet to receive any paper in this regard.

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"After receiving the papers, I intend to go Delhi as doctors have recommended me to undergo operation at New Delhi's Medanta Hospital or AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences] or Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore. I want to do it at AIIMS," he said.

Salahuddin's lawyer SP Mohanto filed the petition on February 9. The BNP leader has been suffering from pyeloplasty disease of kidneys which has turned acute recently.

He has been living at a luxury cottage in Shillong after a local court granted him bail in a case filed by the Indian police for trespassing in May 2015.

Around two months after going missing from Dhaka city, Salahuddin was found in Shillong, the capital of north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, on May 12, 2015.

It still remains a mystery how and when Salahuddin, then joint secretary general of the BNP, landed in Shillong after he was allegedly picked up by plainclothes law enforcers from a house in Dhaka's Uttara area on March 10, 2015.