Mujibur, driver give statements to police
BNP leader Mujibur Rahman, a Bangladeshi expatriate in the UK, and his driver Rezaul Haque yesterday gave separate statements to Sunamganj police, describing their abductions over three months back.
Police found some dissimilarity between the two statements, said Harun-ur-Rashid, superintendent of police in Sunamganj.
He, however, declined to give any details for the sake of investigation, adding that police will thoroughly scrutinise their statements.
“If needed, they will be produced before court,” said the SP.
In the afternoon, a police team, led by the SP, took the two to Tukerbazar on Sylhet-Sunamganj highway, from where they were allegedly picked up on May 4 on their way to Sylhet.
Mujibur, 56, and Rezaul, 30, were taken to Sunamganj from Dhaka on Wednesday night after they were freed in Tongi, Gazipur on Monday, according to Sunamganj police.
In Sunamganj, they were first taken to the SP office at Hajipara and then Mujib was allowed to stay at his home in the same area. Police had been deployed there.
Police, however, did not permit journalists to talk to Mujibur, saying that he is “still sick and will talk later”.
Rezaul was not given the opportunity to stay at his Ukilpara house in the town, alleged his father Abdul Wahed.
“I even could not meet my son although I had been at the police station since yesterday [Wednesday] morning,” he said, adding that police told him to come later.
Earlier in the morning, Sunamganj BNP leaders Nasir Uddin Chowdhury and Kolim Uddin Milon, both former lawmakers, met Mujibur at his home.
While talking to The Daily Star, Kolim Uddin said they asked Mujibur about the kidnap incident. Mujibur said the kidnappers told him that they were policemen.
They stopped Mujibur's vehicle, saying that they would check the papers of the vehicle and the driver, Kolim quoted Mujibur as saying.
Mujibur also told his brother-in-law Anwar Hossain at the capital's United Hospital on Monday that the adductors had identified themselves as policemen.
Anwar said those who kidnapped Mujibur asked him about BNP leader Tarique Rahman, BNP chief Khaleda Zia's son, and Mujibur's connection with Tarique. They also asked Mujibur about politics of the BNP in the UK.
Hours after the release, Rezaul went missing again on that day. Police said they found him in a modest hotel in the capital's Gulshan on Wednesday morning, around 51 hours after he disappeared for the second time.
Now a member of advisory committee of the Sunamganj BNP, Mujibur is also a former vice-president of the party's UK chapter.
His family lodged a general diary with Sunamganj Sadar Police Station after the abduction.
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