DB arrests 8 kidnappers
Police arrested eight kidnappers and rescued two teenagers from Dhaka’s Demra area last evening.
The two were allegedly abducted from Mohammadpur last Tuesday.
The victims are -- Khalid Hasan Dhrubo (19), a first year student of Dhaka College, and his nephew Tanzim Al Islam Dibos (17), an A-Level student.
“Tipped off, we conducted an operation at their den in Demra and arrested the eight,” Shahadat Hossain Suma, additional deputy commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of police, told The Daily Star.
The law enforcers seized uniforms of police, DB vests, three wireless sets, a pistol, three toy guns, a private car, three motorcycles, steel pipes, ropes, mobile phone and sim cards, the police official added.
Police also recovered a victim’s bag with a laptop.
This gang was involved with another such kidnapping earlier this month in Fatullah, during which one of them were arrested. The rest managed to flee, the ADC said, adding that police would seek 10-day remand for each arrestee.
The arrestees are: Moshiur Rahman Pappu (32), Fakar Uddin (24), Mahmudur Rahman Rasel (32), Tushar (34), Ariful Islam Nisan (30), Shafiqul Islam (28), Imtiaz Ahmed (30), and Noman (25).
On Friday, Tanzim’s father Fakhrul Islam filed a case with Mohammadpur Police Station. Earlier, two separate general dairies were filed with Tejgaon and Mohammadpur Police Stations in this connection on Tuesday night.
Family members said they suspected that both were kidnapped, as they were threatened on phone and demanded ransom of Tk 50,00,000, and received calls on Wednesday asking not to approach police.
Tanzim, who worked as an ICT coordinator at a non-profit organisation in Elephant Road area, went to his uncle Dhrubo’s residence in Mohammadpur on Tuesday afternoon. The duo went out from there around 2pm. They were last spotted near a park adjacent to Minar mosque on Tajmahal Road around 2:15pm, according to the case statement. After then, their phones were found switched off.
Around 3:30am on Wednesday, Tanzim’s mother received an anonymous call and learnt that the duo was held by kidnappers.
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