A Shillong court in the Indian state of Meghalaya yesterday granted conditional bail to BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed in a case filed for trespass.

The conditions bar Salahuddin, BNP's joint secretary general, from leaving the Shillong East Khasi Hills district and make it mandatory for him to appear before superintendent of police S Kharkrang every week.

"The order came during a hearing at the court of Additional Deputy Commissioner (Judicial) B Mawrie on acceptance of the charge-sheet submitted by police," SP Mahanta, a counsel for Salahuddin, told The Daily Star.

Subrata Acharjee, India Bureau chief of Somoy TV, told The Daily Star that during the hearing Mahanta made the case that his client, who has been sick, should be granted bail for better treatment.

On May 27, a Shillong court placed the BNP leader in judicial custody. Two days later, another court rejected his bail prayer. He had sought bail for seeking better treatment in a third country.

Later, on Wednesday, Shillong police pressed charges against him 23 days after the case was filed under the foreigners act.

Mahanta also confirmed that the court accepted the charge-sheet against the BNP leader for trespassing.

Salahuddin, 54, is now receiving treatment at North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (Neigrihms) under judicial custody.

Police arrested him on May 11, around two months after he had gone missing in Dhaka.

Salahuddin's family members and the BNP complained that law enforcers had picked him up from a house in the capital's Uttara on March 10.

The arrestee was first admitted to a mental hospital in Shilling as police found him "mentally unstable". Later, he was shifted to Shillong Civil Hospital. On May 20, he was taken to Neigrihms for better treatment.