Bid to abduct girl foiled, 6 arrested

Villagers of Nawabganj upazila of the district foiled an abduction bid yesterday afternoon and caught six people of a gang while they were fleeing with a madrasa girl they had kidnapped from Birampur upazila, police said.

The arrestees are Liton, 21, a microbus driver, Omar Faruk, 27, Md Nurunnabi, 27, Md Rayhan Kabir, 29, Kowshik Alam, 28, and Russel Mia, 30.

Witnesses said the gang was waiting in a microbus near Bijul Madrasa in the upazila from the morning. As the 16-year-old girl was returning home from the madrasa at around 2:30pm, the gang tried to abduct her, but the girl started screaming for help.

Hearing her screams, locals chased the microbus and intercepted it at Bajitpur village in the upazila. They rescued the girl and beat up the abductors mercilessly. The villagers handed over the members of the gang to Nawabganj police, who later sent them to Birampur police

The girl alleged that the abductors tried to give her an injection to make her unconscious. 

Her father filed an abduction case with Birampur Police Station yesterday.