Law enforcers on Tuesday night picked up BNP spokesperson Salahuddin Ahmed from a house in the capital's Uttara, claimed his wife and the party.

“Members of the Rab, police and DB detained him at a house in Uttara around 10:10pm yesterday [Tuesday],” Salahuddin's wife Hasina Ahmed told The Daily Star.

Quoting the owner of the house, she said law enforcers on six vehicles went to the house on Road 13/B of Sector-3 in Uttara around 9:40pm. Showing identity cards of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, they asked the security guard of the building to open the main door to it.

But as the guard refused to oblige, law enforcers kicked the gate repeatedly. At one stage, the guard opened the door and allowed the law enforcers in. The lawmen then turned off the power in the building, she added.

“Sensing something wrong, he [Salahuddin] phoned me around 10:08pm and tried to tell me something, but someone on the other side hung up. Since then, he has been out of contact,” said Hasina, also a former lawmaker.

The law enforcers tied his hands, blindfolded him and took him away from the house.  

Meanwhile, the BNP in a press release yesterday alleged that a team of 20/30 members of police, DB and Rapid Action Battalion picked up the joint secretary general of the party along with his two staff, including a woman, on Tuesday night.

Salahuddin had been discharging the duties of the party spokesperson since the arrest of Rizvi Ahmed, another joint secretary general of BNP, on January 31, added the release.

Law enforcers, however, have denied picking up Salahuddin. Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said they had no information in this regard.

Police did not receive General Diary that Salauddin's wife wanted to file with Uttara [West] Police Station last night.

“She [Salauddin's wife] told me that she wanted to file a GD as her husband was missing. I requested her to talk to the OC. She did not come later,” SI Ashiqur Rahman, duty officer of the police station, said.