3 children rescued, trafficker held in Bogra

11 August 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Bogra

Police yesterday rescued three children and arrested their trafficker at Bogra Rail Station. The arrestee, Golbar Mannan, 30, said he hails from Golagathi village under Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district and met the three children when he was returning home from Bonarpara in Gaibandha district where he worked as a farm labourer. He claimed that he was taking the three children -- Sagor, 11, Bablu, 12, and Hamidul, 12 -- to their mother in Bogra but the children said differently. “Mannan was bringing me and two other children with the promise of giving job in a six-storey building in Dhaka. Peanut sellers on the train became suspicious about his motive. They caught him and handed him over to Bogra Rail Police,” said Sagor, 11. Golbar Mannan also said he would buy them good clothes and show them the houses of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the rescued children said. He also assured them of taking to India for travelling, they said.