Ilyas Ali still alive, claims brother

DHAKA, Aug 14: Forced disappeared Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s leader M Ilyas Ali’s younger brother Askir Ali claimed that his brother is still alive.
 
“We have information from different sources that my brother M Ilyas Ali is still alive and he has been languishing at a jail in India. Ilyas Ali is now in jail near Dom Dom airport in India,” Askir Ali said at Straight Dialogue function of a private television.  
 
He said that their family members are confident about his alive.
 
M. Ilyas Ali, organising secretary of BNP has been forced disappeared from near his Gulshan residence on April 17 in 2012.