Boy abducted from Dhaka rescued in Thakurgaon

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-13 in Nilphamari rescued a minor boy from abductors at Chourasta intersection in adjacent Thakurgaon town on Monday, 11 days after the same force rescued five-year-old Riad, abducted from Gazipur in Dhaka, on August 13.

The boy rescued on Monday is Safid, 5, son of Md Shamim, a golf club employee in the capital.

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"Safid was abducted from Khilkhet area in Dhaka city by his teenage aunt and her middle-aged boyfriend. Rab also arrested the two abductors," said Aklamul Hossain, commander of Rab-13 camp in Nilphamari.

"Pinki Begum, 14, daughter of Liton Mia, 45, a vegetable vendor working at Mirpur-14 in the capital, had intimacy with Kohinoor Begum, 15, sister-in-law of Safid's father Shamim. Liton developed an affair with Kohinoor although he is married and has two adolescent children," he said.

Liton Mia told Kohinoor that they would marry soon and instigated her to abduct her nephew Safid for realising ransom money to meet their need.

With the help of Kohinoor, Liton abducted Safid on Thursday noon and they took the victim to Thakurgaon by bus.

Liton hails from Digolgram village in Panchagarh district, bordering Thakurgaon and Nilphamari districts.

As the abductors demanded Tk 3 lakh as ransom from Shamim through mobile phone for getting back his son, he lodged a GD with the local police station and informed Rab-1 of the matter.

Rab-1 conveyed the matter to Rab-13 in Nilphamari.

Applying modern technology, the elite force detected the location of the abductors who were staying at a house in Thakurgaon for three days.

About 7:30pm of Monday, Rab raided the house, rescued the boy and arrested the two abductors from the spot.

After interrogation at Nilphamari camp, Rab handed over the arrestees to police.