Abducted tea vendor found dead in Savar

Police recovered the decomposed body of a tea vendor from a bush in Savar early yesterday, 14 days after he had been abducted.

The law enforcers also arrested two youths -- Mehedi, 22, and Hasan, 24.

On August 20, Sagor Hossen, 20, a tea stall owner in Khalek Market area in Aukpara, went out of his house saying that one of his customers over phone asked him to repay money he had borrowed. He had been missing since then, said family and police.

On August 21, an unidentified man called Sagor's mother from Sagor's number, demanding Tk 80,000 for her son's release. The man made the demand till August 29, they said.

As the family failed to manage the money and found the phone switched off, Sagor's mother Khadiza Begum filed a general diary with Ashulia Police Station on August 30, they added.

On Monday, police arrested Mehedi and Hasan by tracking phone numbers, said Sub-Inspector Moniruzzaman of the police station.

Following their confessional statements, the law enforcers recovered the body from the bush, about 2.5 kilometres away from the victim's house, said the SI.

Yesterday, Khadiza filed a murder case against three persons including the arrestees.