Trace IT expert Zoha

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday expressed its deep concern over the disappearance of IT expert Tanveer Hassan Zoha, who was allegedly picked up on early Thursday.

In a statement, ASK demanded that the government and law enforcement agencies do their best to trace him.

"It is the government's constitutional duty to ensure security for each citizen," the statement says.

The 32-year-old information technology expert was allegedly picked up by plainclothes men around 1:00am from Dhaka Cantonment area while he was returning to his Kalabagan house with a friend by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.

Afterwards, the family went to three police stations to file a general diary but police allegedly refused to accept it.

The incident occurred a couple of days after Tanveer spoke to the media over the cyber heist of the Bangladesh Bank reserve.

In media reports, he was identified as an official of the ICT division of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. The ICT division, however, in a statement, dismissed reports of his affiliation with it.