Sleeping boy thrown into river: 6 held
Kidnappers on Monday evening threw a sleeping four-year-old boy into river from Kanchpur Bridge as the victim recognised one of the culprits.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested six alleged kidnappers Chhasra of Narayanganj, who told the investigators that they had the victim Md Zihad drunken sedative-mixed water and threw him into the river.
A joint rescue team of Rab-11 and Fire Service and Civil Defense searched for the boy in the river and adjacent area for eight hours but failed to trace him, said Lt Mahbubul Alam, company commander of Rab-11.
The arrestees are Mohammad Wasim, 26, Mohammad Salam, 19, Mohammad Sadek, 23, Mohammad Swapon, 30, Mohammad Sakil, 25, and Lucky Akhter, 19.
Lt Alam said criminals abducted Zihad, son of Akhter Hossain of Dharmoganj, Fatullah from near his house around 7:00pm on June 26 and demanded Tk 3 lakh from his mother Masuda Akhter the next day over phone.
Wasim, Swapon, and Shakil, neighbours of the boy, planned the abduction about a month back to realise money from Zihad's expatriate father, he said.
Sadek and Salam worked on contract while Lucky, the second wife of Wasim, helped them, he added.
Lt Alam said Rab arrested the gang red handed while the gang members were exchanging money yesterday.
The abductors told interrogators that they took Zihad to Lucky's house at Vuigar on June 26. As Wasim's son Obaidul was a playmate of Zihad, he could have recognised him.
Abductors threw Zihad into the river fearing arrest.
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