Garment worker saved from kidnap bid

A female garment worker escaped an abduction attempt in the town on Monday night, thanks to the prompt action by the district superintendent of police (SP).

Shikha Akter, a worker of a garment factory in Chittagong city, was returning to her home at Maishadi village under Chandpur Sadar upazila when the two youths waylaid her on the road around 11:30pm.

"On the way to my residence near the Circuit House, I saw two youths on a motorbike intercepting a rickshaw carrying the girl, aged around 18. They were trying to force the rickshaw-puller to go to the Bus Stand area," said SP Md Ameer Jafar.

"I rushed to the spot and took the two youths and the girl to my office nearby," he said.

The two youths, Joynal Abedin Gazi, son of Kalu Gazi of Rongergaon village, and Abdus Shahid Sujan, son of Abdus Sattar Patwary of Madna village in Sadar upazila, were later sent to the police station by a patrol team.

The SP informed the girl's father Shukkur Ali and handed her over to him after recording her statement.

The girl's father filed a case in connection with the kidnap attempt yesterday morning, said Enayet Uddin, officer-in-charge of Chandpur Model Police Station. 

In the afternoon, the two youths were produced before the court that turned down their bail prayer and sent them to jail.