Father seeks to know son's whereabouts

Plain-clothes men picked up a schoolboy on Friday night, 30 minutes after he got release from Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) office in the district town, Kazi Santu, father of victim Kazi Shahed, told a press conference at Kushtia Press Club on Tuesday night.

“I want to know who picked up my son and his whereabouts,” Santu of Bheramara told the journalists.

"A team of Rab-12 in Kushtia picked up my son on June 15 to interrogate him about the murder of another schoolboy Sabbir that took place in Bheramara on April 13. The Rab officials handed my son to me about 8:00pm on June 16, he said.

Santu alleged that as they boarded a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Mazampur in the town about 8:30pm to go home in Bheramara, two plain-clothes men in a microbus asked him to hand over his son to them. The plain-clothes men carrying arms forced his son to the vehicle and left immediately, he added. When asked they refused to give their identity, he said.

Santu instantly rushed to the Rab office and informed them of the matter.

The Rab men advised him to file a general diary (GD) with police.

Accordingly, he went to Kushtia Model Police Station on the night, police, however, asked him to come in the morning, he said. Police recorded a GD on the matter on June 17.

Superintendent of Police SM Mehedi Hasan said Kushtia Model police have been asked to investigate the matter immediately.