Thakurgaon district unit Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Belal Uddin Pradhan, who was detained at Saidpur Airport ‘with around Tk 74 lakh’, fell ill and was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
After he complained of illness, he was taken to Saidpur 100-bed Hospital in Nilphamari district by an ambulance at 1:47pm.
Nazmul Huda, Resident Medical Officer of the hospital, said, “No sign of a heart attack was found in the Jamaat leader after conducting medical tests. An ECG was performed, but no indication of a heart attack was detected. He has been referred to Rangpur Medical College Hospital for further evaluation.”
Additional law enforcers were deployed in and around the hospital to avoid any untoward incident.
Earlier in the day, police arrested Belal Uddin at Saidpur Airport in Nilphamari and recovered ‘Tk 74 lakh’ from his possession, said Officer-in-Charge of Saidpur Police Station Abdus Sattar.
Jamaat leader’s arrest with cash ‘stage-managed drama’, party claims
A case was filed in connection with the cash recovery, said OC.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair on Wednesday claimed the arrest of Thakurgaon district Jamaat Ameer Belal Uddin with a large amount of cash was a ‘stage-managed drama by law enforcers’.
Speaking at an emergency press conference at the party’s central office in Moghbazar, the Jamaat leader claimed that the recovered money was not related to the election but was linked to Belal Uddin’s personal business transactions.