Three teenagers held in Puthia

Police yesterday arrested three teenagers, on charges of being involved with an abduction in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi.

All the arrestees are under 18 years of age, said Iftekhayer Alam, an additional SP of Rajshahi.

One of them led a gang of seven more youngsters -- engaged in extortion and blackmailing in the upazila for the last few years, he said.

Although they were involved with the crimes, none  other than one person dared to complain against them, the  police official said.

One Shamim Reza of the upazila went to Puthia Police Station on Saturday, and told law enforcers that the gang abducted him while he was sitting  with his cousin and a friend near a culvert on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in  Krishnapur area that evening.

The miscreants blindfolded him and took him to an abandoned building.

They forced Reza to have photographs taken with an unknown girl, and then demanded Tk 20,000 from him. 

They threatened him of publishing the photographs on social media  and filing a case against him under the women and children repression  prevention act.

Reza managed to flee later that night and went to the police, the SP said.

Investigating into the case, police found his allegations to be true, and arrested three of the accused.

Police are looking for the girl and other members of the gang.