Missing youth's family claims he is not among the dead
Azizul Haque Chowdhury, father of missing youth Sabbirul Haque Kanik, 22, recorded a general diary with Bakalia police on Friday night, more than five months after his son had disappeared.
Sabbirul has been missing since February 21.
It was earlier suspected that one of the nine militants who were killed in a gunfight with police in the capital's Kalyanpur was Sabbirul, police said. Azizul's family members also went to Dhaka to verify it, they added.
“After seeing the body on Thursday they confirmed to the police that it was not Sabbirul,” said Nure Alam Mina, superintendent of Chittagong police.
Contacted, Azizul said he and his nephew Wahidul Haque Chowdhury started for Dhaka on Tuesday. But he returned home on way to the capital as he was not feeling well, he said, adding, “My nephew saw the body and confirmed that it was not my son.”
Azizul said Wahidul took with him Sabbirul's voter ID card, from which the police retrieved his fingerprints.
In the GD, Azizul, a tax collector of Chittagong City Corporation, said his son went out of his house at Kalamia Bazar in the port city on February 21 taking Tk 500 from him. He said he was going to attend a wedding party at Raozan upazila and did not return since then, said Abul Mansur, officer-in-charge of Bakalia police.
Sabbirul is the eldest of the two sons and a daughter of Azizul, also a former president of Burumchhara union unit of Awami League in Anwara upazila.
A student of economics and banking at International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC), Sabbirul passed the SSC examinations from Government Muslim High School in Chittagong in 2010 with GPA-5. He passed the HSC examinations from Government Commerce College, Chittagong in 2012, said AKM Emran Bhuiyan, Chittagong's additional superintendent of police (south zone).
Contacted, Squadron Leader (retd) Muhammad Nurul Islam, registrar of the IIUC, said, “He is no more our student.”
He remained unregistered for two semesters, the registrar said, adding, if any student remains unregistered for two consecutive semesters, their studentship gets cancelled automatically.
Prof Dr Muhammed Saiful Islam of the department said Sabbirul completed his first two semesters but has been absent since third semester.
In the first two semesters, his average result was CGPA 3.242, he added.
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