Mother seeks PM's help for missing ex-BCL man's return

Over two months have passed following an alleged abduction of a former Bangladesh Chhatra League president of the capital's Rampura Thana unit whose mother yesterday said she was appearing before the press for the fourth time and now seeking Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's intervention for his return.

SM Moazzem Hossain Topu is in the custody of law enforcers who abducted him in collusion with some Jubo League men of the area, said a sobbing Saleha Begum at a press conference in the capital's Dhaka Reporters Unity.

Topu was targeted for deterring extortion and over rivalry centring establishing political supremacy in the area, she added.  

The statement of the case she filed with Bhatara Police Station on January 30 says one of Topu's friends called his brother on January 26 around 11:30pm claiming that Topu had been abducted 15 minutes earlier by three unidentified men from a flat in Bashundhara residential area.

The friend is among eight persons Saleha named and believes are involved with the abduction, as per the statement.

On why they thought law enforcers are involved, Topu's elder brother Dr Mainul Hossain Apu said, "Police are showing indifference in conducting investigations...police have not taken any action...not even arrested any of the suspects." 

Talking to The Daily Star, the case's investigation officer, Sub-Inspector Md Sharif Hossain, denied the allegation, saying the suspects had gone into hiding. "We are investigating the matter concentrating on rescuing the victim first," he added.