Schoolboy rescued, outlaw arrested for abduction

22 December 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Kushtia

Local people in Meherpur rescued a schoolboy abducted from Kushtia Sadar upazila and caught one of the abductors on Monday night. The beat up the abductor, Asadul, and handed him over to the police. Asadul, 35, son of Ejahar Ali of Radhanagar in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia, is a leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), police said. They said Asadul and his accomplices made a plan to kidnap Alhaj Ismail Hossain's son Saiful Islam, 16, an SSC candidate, from Harinarayanpur village under Kushtia Sadar upazila. Accordingly, they went to the village in a microbus Monday noon and stopped the vehicle near the house of Ismail, a trader of the area. Police quoted Saiful as saying that the gang called him when he was returning home form Harinarayanpur Bazar at around 4:30pm. When he went there, two to three men got down from the microbus and gagged him. The gang then lifted Saiful onto the microbus, tied up his hands and legs and took him to a farmhouse owned by one Yasin at Mohammadpur village in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district, police quoting Saiful said. Police said Yasin is also involved in abduction and using his farmhouse as den of the PBCP. “The gang then removed the gag and asked me to inform my family to pay them (abductors) Tk 7 lakh for my release,” Saiful told police. They also beat up Saiful as he told the gang that he did not know the phone number of his father, police said. Hearing scream, ten to eight passers-by rushed to the spot, saw the boy tied up and cried for help from people nearby. As the abductors started to flee sensing danger, locals caught Asadul on the spot while the rest two managed to flee. They beat up Asadul and informed Gangni police who went to the spot, rescued Saiful and arrested abductor Asadul. Police later handed over Saiful to his family. When contacted, Motiar Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Islamic University Police Station said drive is on to arrest the two other abductors.