The Indian police had arrested the missing Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Salahuddin Ahmed on Monday and took him to a psychiatric hospital at Shillong in the state of Meghalaya, reports Shillong Times.

BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed went missing on 10 March. His family complained that he was picked up by law enforcers.

Salahuddin on Tuesday phoned her wife from a mental hospital in India’s Shillong on Tuesday afternoon and confirmed that he was alive and in good health.

Shillong Times, a newspaper of Indian state of Meghalya, on Monday published a report headlined ‘B’deshi man held’ saying that a Bangladeshi was held by police in the morning.

‘Police said that the Bangladeshi national Salauddin Ahmed (54) was arrested from Golf Link, Shillong,’ the report said.

Shillong Times also mentioned that investigation was underway.

Hasina Ahmed, wife of the BNP leader, in a press conference at about 3:00pm on Tuesday said Salahuddin was receiving treatment at Meghalaya Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences.

Earlier, BNP chairperson’s media wing officer Shamsuddin Didar also said that Salahuddin Ahmed had been traced.

Salauddin’s family claimed on 10 March this year that members of law enforcing agencies picked him up from Uttara residence, an allegation denied by the law enforcers and the government.