Missing madrasa student found in capital

The madrasa student, who went missing from Barisal and texted his mother not to worry about him, was working at a restaurant in the capital's Dayaganj.

Upset at his father's refusal to give him money, Niamatullah, 16, left his madrasa in Barisal's Agailjhara on November 30 and came to the capital, said Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Gendaria Police Station.

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Restaurant owner Amirul Islam contacted police after he came to know about Niamatulla's going missing from a TV report, the OC said.

Niamatullah told police that he was upset because his father neither paid his tuition fees regularly nor gave him pocket money, reports our Barisal correspondent. 

This statement corroborated the version of his madrasa Principal Mufti Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, who talked to The Daily Star earlier.

Niamatullah's parents along with a team of Agailjhara police received him from the custody of Gendaria police and left for Barisal, said Mizanur.

Three days after he fled from Al-Jamiatul Nasisia Al Islamia Markas Madrasa, Niamatullah sent a text to his mother, seeking forgiveness and telling her not to worry about him.

The text, published in the media, sparked a speculation about him being involved in militancy.

Meanwhile, Ahsan Habib, 40, staff of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board, who has been reportedly missing since November 14, still remains traceless.

Sub-inspector Nasiruddin of Motijheel Police Station said Habib's disappearance might be linked to “a family dispute”.

His wife Monsura, however, told The Daily Star that she and Habib had been “happily married for 16 years".

Monsura filed a general diary with Motijheel Police Station on December 5, mentioning that her husband left the capital for his village home in Dinajpur on November 14 and had been missing since then.

Two Pabna Medical College students Tanvir Ahmed, 21, and Zakir Hossain, 22, who went missing on November 30 and December 1, still remain traceless.

Apart from the three, six youths went missing in the capital between November 29 and December 5. Their sudden disappearances have caused serious concern to their families, given that the Holey Artisan Bakery attackers and many other militant suspects disappeared in a similar fashion.