Police rescue youth from Mirpur flat, arrest five
Police yesterday arrested five suspected members of a kidnapping group from Shah Alibagh of Mirpur in connection with the abduction of a youth.
The kidnappers were identified as Sohagi Begum, 48; her younger sister Rita, 40; her daughter Sharna, 22; son Shayon, 19; and Shayon’s friend Jawad, 20.
According to New Market police, the victim Md Faizul Haque was abducted by the group near Dhaka College when he was returning home after work at a shop in Chandni Chawk around 7:30pm on Sunday.
The kidnappers confined him at a house at East Ahmednagar of Shah Alibagh and beat him for several hours before demanding ransom from his family members.
Hearing his screams on the phone, victim’s family sent Tk 80,000 via bKash to the kidnappers, they said.
Officer-in-charge of New Market Police Station Atiqul Islam said they rescued Faizul from the house just 17 hours after his abduction.
He said Faizul, a staff of ‘Fashion Asia’ in Chandni Chawk, was surrounded by four persons near Dhaka College when he was returning home on Sunday evening.
One of the abductors asked him to walk towards Science Laboratory without making noise, and forced him into a microbus, the OC said quoting the victim, adding that a motorcycle followed the microbus.
They first took him to Mirpur Section-1, getting off near a Chinese restaurant and then took a rickshaw to a six-storey building. Faizul was taken to a flat in the biulding
There were three women in the flat and they beat him up in a separate room, police said.
Faizul could not recognise any of his abductors, and did not know why he was abducted, said the OC, quoting victim’s brother Sheikh Mohammad Fazlul Haque.
Faizul’s brother informed the Assistant Police Commissioner of New Market zone and OC of the New Market Police Station about the abduction yesterday morning, when the abductors again demanded ransom, said Atiqul.
He said Faizul’s brother sent Tk 10,000 yesterday morning and employed the strategy of biding time, when the kidnappers began demanding more money.
Police recovered Faizul from the house yesterday noon after identifying the location, he said.
The OC said Faizul received a call on Facebook messenger from an unknown woman on Sunday afternoon.
Most of the abductors were hailing from Patuakhali, and had rented the flat in Mirpur. They targeted gullible persons, abducted them, and realised ransom from their families, police said.
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