Child abducted from Dhaka, rescued in Narayanganj

A two-and-half-year-old child was rescued from a slum in Narayanganj today, a day after he was abducted in Dhaka.

An alleged kidnapper, Md Anwar Hossain, CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, was arrested from the slum in this connection, police said.

Hasib was rescued from a slum in Narayanganj city around 5:00am, Mohammed Ibrahim Khan, deputy commissioner (Lalbagh), said during a briefing this afternoon.

The victim along with his sister Lamia was abducted from Mitford Hospital in the capital, But Lamia was found later from in front of the hospital’s morgue yesterday, the police official said.

Hasib’s mother Hasina Begum filed a kidnapping case with the Lalbagh Police Station yesterday.

In the case, she mentioned that she received an unknown phone call from the alleged kidnappers who demanded Tk 2 lakh from her.

Hasina used to travel by Anwar Hossain’s auto-rickshaw, police said.