Madrasa boy traceless for 4 days

Father of a missing madrasa student in Kushtia in a press conference at Chuadanga Press Club yesterday alleged that the boy remained traceless after plain-clothes men introducing themselves as members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-12 in Kushtia abducted him four days ago.

Major Mosaddek Ibne Mujib, commander of Rab-12, however, said none of the elite force committed the act.

The victim, Abuzar Gifari, 22, is son of Amir Hossain of Chuadanga Sadar upazila, and a student of Ashraful Ulum Qwami Madarsa at Mangalbaria on the outskirts of Kushtia town.

"Four plain-clothes people went to the madrasa on January 28. They introduced themselves as the members of Kushtia Rab, picked up Abuzar on a microbus (No Ga-137267) and disappeared around 2:00pm," said Amir Hossain at the conference.

"Informed of the incident by the madarsa authority, I communicated with Kushtia office of Rab-12 the same day but they denied their involvement with the incident.

"Then I went to Kushtia Model Police Station and filed a general dairy there on January 28 but they could not trace him out," Amir said.

Mawlana Abu Daud, muhtamim of the madarsa, said four people introducing themselves as Rab men picked up Abuzar from the madrasa hostel on Thursday.

Obaidur Rahman, second officer of Kushtia Model Police Station, said  police are investigating the matter.