Expat rescued from drug rehabilitation centre in N'ganj

Centre director arrested

21 May 2010, 18:00 PM

A correspondent, Narayanganj

The police arrested a director of a drug rehabilitation centre in Narayanganj on Thursday night on charges of confining a youth to his centre. The police also rescued the youth, Faruk Hossain, an expatriate in Japan, from Ashru Drug Rehabilitation Centre at Panchabati 10 days into his confinement. Sources said Faruk, who has been living in Japan for the last 19 years, is a victim of conspiracy by his family members who wanted to misappropriate all the money he remitted from Japan throughout all these years. Faruk has sent crores of money from Japan to his mother Rizia Khatun and two brothers Foyez and Giasuddin who bought 104 shops in different markets, 12 apartments, 15 kathas of land in Kamragirchar, 26 kathas of land in Uttara and shares in different companies with his money. On returning home recently, Faruk found out that no documents of the properties certify him as the owner, which led to a feud with his mother and brothers. His brothers then hatched a conspiracy and in collusion with the director of the drug rehabilitation centre, Samsuddoha, confined Faruk to the centre, showing him as a drug addict, the police said. On Thursday night, some friends of Faruk -- Azad, Hemayet, Monir and Helal -- tried to rescue Faruk from the centre, but the centre employees and security guards beat them and also confined Monir to the centre. Other friends then informed the police who rescued Faruk and Monir and arrested Samsuddollah, Officer-in-Charge of Fatullah Model Thana Police Jiban Kanti Sarkar said.