'Missing' businessman found unhurt
Abdus Salam -- a wealthy Rajshahi businessman with controversial connections -- who went “missing” on Sunday, was rescued unhurt by police in Natore early yesterday.
Some unknown people in a microbus and two motorcycles abducted him from Polashi village of Bagmara upazila while he was returning home on a motorbike, his wife had alleged earlier.
Around 1:00am yesterday, Salam called Bagmara police and informed that his abductors left him at Aggram village, said Nasim Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Bagmara Police Station.
Assisted by Boraigram police, they found him at a fueling station beside Bonpara-Sirajganj highway in Natore, he added.
OC Dilip Kumar Das of Boraigram Police Station said when they found Salam, he was trembling and kept on saying that his abductors left him there.
Police also recovered a motorbike from the spot.
Contacted, Salam's brother Abu Sayem said, “We're happy that he returned unhurt. He is yet to recover fully.”
Mentionable, Salam was listed in local police records as a member of banned militant outfits Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh and Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
In 2008, he joined Awami League when the party came to power, and became vice president of Goalkandi union AL and agriculture and cooperatives secretary of the upazila unit.
Salam was nominated by AL for contesting the Goalkandi Union Parishad election on May 7, 2016, but his nomination was cancelled and the polls at 16 unions of Bagmara upazila were withheld, after four people were killed in clashes among two AL groups divided over his nomination.
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