Follow-up
5 Faridpur youths still untraced, prime suspect on remand
Syed Masum alias Nirob, prime suspect in the case for kidnapping five youths in the district was taken on three days' police remand yesterday.
Earlier, Nirob was produced before the court of senior judicial magistrate Al-Amin Matubbor in the afternoon seeking 7 days' remand. However, the court granted three days' remand.
Detective Branch (DB) police arrested Syed Masum on Sunday as the prime suspect in the kidnapping case. Earlier, police picked up two local youths for interrogation.
The five youths were abducted from Maligram under Bhanga upazila of the district December 6. They are still untraced.
A group of six, claiming themselves as personnel of Detective Branch of police, picked them up in a white microbus around 3:00pm that day, witnesses said.
The abducted youths are Rubel Kha, 18, Belayet Kha, 23, Quaiyum Munshi, 32, Sobhan Kha, 19 and Fayaz Hawlader, 23 -- all from Atra Bhasra village of Kala Mridah union under Bhanga upazila.
Rubel was a madrassa student while the four others were unemployed, family sources said.
Rafiqul Islam, nephew of Rubel Kha, said at a press conference a few days ago that Nirob of Algadia village under Nagarkanda upazila called Sobhan over the phone around 2:30pm on December 6 asking him to go to Maligram Bazar.
As Sobhan along with Rubel, Belayet and Fayaz reached there, a gang hustled them in a microbus.
Informed by Fayaz over the phone, Quaiyum accompanied by Asad Sikder rushed to the scene to rescue them. But they were also forced in the microbus.
Later Asad was dropped near Bakhunda on Dhaka-Barisal Highway, Rafiqul said.
However prime suspect Masum told this correspondent in court area yesterday that he was also kidnapped by the culprits who claimed themselves as Detective Branch personnel.
Later he was dropped at Nobinagar, Masum said.
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