Published on 12:00 AM, May 17, 2008

4-yr-old boy rescued, four held on charges of abduction

The police rescued a four-year-old boy from Alamdanga in Chuadanga yesterday four days after he was abducted from Dhaka.
They also arrested four people on charges of abduction. The arrestees are Sajib of Faidabad in Dhaka, Raja of Barisal and Tipu and his sister Shefali of Alamdanga.
The boy Yasin, son of scrap trader Abdul Wahab, was abducted from Faridabad on May 13.
The police said Sajib had kidnapped the boy and called his father over mobile phone to demand a Tk 10 lakh ransom for the release of the boy.
Wahab filed a case with the police on May 14.
As per a plan of police directives, Wahab contacted the kidnappers and told them he would pay the ransom. The kidnappers then asked him to come to Alamdanga and gave him an address of a house.
The police along with Wahab then went to the house and managed to rescue the boy and arrest the kidnappers.
Akter Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dakkhinkhan police station, said, "We returned to Dhaka with the boy and the kidnappers at about 11:30pm on Friday."