The husband of the award-winning environmental lawyer Rizwana Hasan was whisked away in a blue microbus from Narayanganj, when on its way to Dhaka, police said. Narayanganj’s Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Shahidul Islam said that they have identified the vehicle, used to abduct AB Siddiqui, from the CCTV footage of the toll plaza at Dhaka’s Jatrabari flyover. “From the statements of the two eye-witnesses (to the abduction), we think that this is the vehicle which carried abducted Abdu Bakar Siddiqui,” he said. Armed assailants waylaid Siddiqui’s car at Narayanganj’s Bhuigarh and took him away in a van around 3pm Wednesday. Born and raised in Narayanganj, Siddiqui was returning from a garment factory at Fatulla. “Minutes after the abduction at 2:53 pm, the blue car passed the toll plaza of that flyover. The license plate read ‘Chittagong Metro-Ga- 17-8327’,” said ASP Islam, who is the member secretary of the committee formed to investigate the abduction. The police is verifying whether the license plate was genuine or a false one, he added. Eye witnesses Sharif Hossain and ‘Babu’ identified the car from the CCTV footage. Rizwana Hasan claims her husband was abducted by people upset with her activism. — bdnews24.com
