The High Court on Monday further adjourned the hearing on the rule to find out BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed till 8 April.

The bench of Justice Kamrul Islam and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the order.

During the hearing, Attorney General Mahmub-e-Alam read out the reports of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), police directorate, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and of police Special Branch (SB) regarding the ‘disappearance’  of Salahuddin Ahmed. The reports say that Salahuddin has not been detained or arrested. But the effort is  on to find him out.

Answering to a question of the Judge whether any search operation was conducted, the attorney general said, ‘No operation has been conducted but the effort is on to find him out.’

Salahuddin’s lawer Moudud Ahmed said, ‘The law enforcers were supposed to give the reports to us on Sunday but we got the reports during the hearing. So we did not have scope to go through them.’

Hasina Ahmed, wife of Salahuddin, on 12 March moved to the High Court to seek remedy claiming that the law enforcers in plainclothes picked her husband up from an Uttara house in the capital on 10 March night and yet to hand him over to any police station.

Responding to the petition under section 491 of the CrPC filed by Salahuddin’s wife, the HC issued a rule in this regard.

BNP leader Salahuddin had been issuing statements from hideout, 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.