Law enforcers not involved

A police investigation has found involvement of neither any law enforcement agencies nor any of their members in the abduction of Chittagong city jewellery businessman Mridul Chowdhury who was found abandoned in Comilla six days later this February.
A three-member probe committee interrogated eight people including the victim's wife, a friend, and a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) officer, and inspected some documents. The three-page report was submitted to the police headquarters in Dhaka yesterday.
According to family members, Mridul was abducted from in front of his residence in Hazari Lane area on February 11 by some men identifying themselves as members of Rab and the Detective Branch of police.
Despite much clamouring in the media and continued protests by jewellers of the port city, law enforcers failed to track down the missing man. Six days later, on February 17, Mridul was recovered from near a market in Comilla's Burichang upazila.
Though it remains a mystery, family members always accused Rab of the abduction, as Mridul sued Rab-2 official Maj Raqibul Amin last December for seizing 80 tolas of his gold, worth at least Tk 40 lakh, that he sent to Dhaka on October 3.
Mridul complained that Maj Raqibul confiscated the gold from his driver and a confidant in Kamalapur Railway Station area that day, saying the two men were illegally possessing the valuable metal. The victim never got back his gold.
After his return, Mridul said the kidnappers tortured him handcuffed and blindfolded, asking him "why you filed a case".
The investigation failed to reveal the abductors.  
Additional Commissioner of Chittagong city police Banaj Kumar Mazumder, who headed the investigation, said Rab-7 headquartered in Patenga did not arrest anyone named Mridul on February 11.
“We also talked to the commanding officer of Rab-2 who informed us that Maj Raqibul Amin always stayed in the Rab-2 headquarters in Dhaka in the last three months, and he only stayed in Comilla for only one day during the period,” he said.
Maj Raqibul denied his involvement in the kidnap, said a source.
The police official, however, hoped that the investigation being conducted by Kotwali police would identify the abductors.