Govt official rescued hours into abduction
Detectives rescued a government official hours into his abduction in the district town early yesterday and arrested three abductors.
The arrestees are Ranjit Poddar, 30, son of Chandidas Poddar of Kalitola, and Moudud alias Shantu Sawdagar, 30, son of Mabud Sawdagar of Sutrapur area in Bogra town; and Hasanuzzaman, 26, son of Shahadat Hossain of Chandpara in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district.
DB police sources said a gang of four picked up Yusuf Mia, 34, an official at Dhunat upazila accounts office, from Mofiz Paglar intersection in the town at around 8:00pm on Monday.
The gang took Yusuf to a house in Woodburn Park area in the town and phoned his relatives, demanding Tk 1 lakh ransom for his release, source added.
Though Yusuf's relatives gave the kidnappers Tk 32,000 through a bKash account, they demanded Tk 32,000 more for his release.
Receiving an SMS text from Yusuf, DP police raided the house at around 1:30am, rescued him and arrested three of the gang. Another abductor named Shakil Mahmud, 25, of Khandar area of the town managed to flee.
Contacted, Officer-in-Charge (DB) Amirul Islam of Bogra Sadar Police Station said the victim, Yusuf, filed an abduction case with the police station against four abductors in the morning.
Law enforcers are raiding different areas of the district to arrest abductor Shakil Mahmud, who fled the house in Woodburn Park area, sensing the presence of DB men, the OC added.
Police yesterday produced the three arrested abductors in a Bogra court that sent them to jail.
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