Missing in Savar, arrested in Dhaka
Ibrahim Khalil, one of the three persons who reportedly went missing from Savar between Friday and Saturday night, was arrested in the capital by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Tuesday, according to a press release of Rab-11 in Narayanganj yesterday.
Rab-11 also claimed to have arrested one Mizanur Rahman Abdullah along with Ibrahim from Sayedabad Bus Stand in Jatrabari. The press release claimed that the two are active members of “Sarwar-Tamim Group” of banned militant outfit JMB.
In addition, books and leaflets on militancy were seized from their possessions, according to the press release. It added that the two were accused in several cases filed with Bandar Police Station in Narayanganj and were on the run.
Ibrahim was one of the three, who went missing since Friday in Savar, reports our Savar correspondent.
The other two are -- Md Salauddin Rubel, 31, an English teacher of Akkhor Academic Coaching Centre, and Sharif Hossen, 18, a twelfth-grader of Savar Doshaid School and College.
Around 10:00pm on Friday, Ibrahim, 30, after finishing his prayers at a nearby mosque started heading back home in Shahibagh area, but he did not return, said Mohammad Nayeem, his brother-in-law. “His phone was also found switched off.”
On Saturday, the family filed a general diary (GD) with Savar Model Police Station.
“Around 6:00pm on Monday, I received a call from his number. An unknown person demanded Tk 60,000 as ransom through a bKash account,” said Nayeem. “We paid Tk 30,000. Later, both Ibrahim's and the bKash number were found switched off.”
Meanwhile, Salauddin Rubel, teacher of the coaching centre, went out of his house in the same area around 9:00pm the same night and did not return, said his wife Lovely Yasmin. Since then, his phone remained switched off.
Lovely alleged that Rubel had an altercation with a teacher of the coaching centre.
She filed a GD with Savar Model Police Station on Saturday evening.
When asked whether Salauddin knew Ibrahim, who also went missing the same night, Lovely said both of them lived close by and used to know each other.
She also quoted police as saying that Salauddin contacted Ibrahim on the day.
On the other hand, Sharif, the twelfth grader, has been missing since Saturday evening, said his grandfather Shamsul Alam. “He went missing from near his uncle's house in Aukpara Bus Stand area.”
His phone was also found switched off from the day. The family filed a GD with Ashulia Police Station on Tuesday. “Around 3:00pm on Tuesday, I got a call from Sharif's number. A male voice demanded Tk 1 lakh as ransom and hung up,” he said.
Contacted, Khorshed Alam, additional superintendent of police (saver circle), said, “We are investigating the incidents and trying to find the missing persons.”
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