Khudey Gaanraj Jhuma handed over to mother

Jhumjhum Akter Jhuma. Photo courtesy Jhuma (Khude Gaanraj), a Facebook profile

Jhumjhum Akter Jhuma, a runner-up in a television talent hunt for child singers, who had been abducted two weeks ago, was handed over to her mother on Thursday.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Begum Laila Ferdous in the afternoon ordered police to hand over the girl to her mother, Jesmine Begum, when the girl was produced before the court.

Earlier on Wednesday, the 14-year-old ninth grader at CambrianSchool and College in Dhaka was discovered at the victim support centre of Tejgaon Police Station in the capital, 15 days after she was abducted by an acquaintance in Narsingdi.

Narsingdi police said her abductor, Md Israfil, 35, a businessman in Ashulia, secretly dropped her at the centre and vanished to protect himself as he was sued recently.

Tejgaon police handed Jhuma over to Narsingdi police in the presence of her mother, and they left for Narsingdi on Wednesday, said Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge, Narsingdi Police Station.

Jasmine filed an abduction case against Israfil and his driver Faisal, 25, with a Narsingdi court on August 4.

Talking to journalists on the tribunal premises that day, Jasmine alleged that the two men bundled Jhuma into a microbus in Narsingdi district town when she was going to her village home in Shibpur upazila from her residence in the town by a rickshaw on July 23.

Jhuma, the first runner-up in the Meridian-Channel-i Khudey Gaanraj in 2008, got acquainted with Israfil at a concert in Savar recently, her mother said. Israfil, who is already married to two women, wanted to marry Jhuma, she added.