Our Correspondent :
A gang of miscreants abducted an officer of BRAC Bank last Thursday night when he was returning home from Jessore’s Arabpur..
The abductors the same night demanded a ransom of Tk two lakh over the cell phone.
The abducted bank officer has been identified as Shankor Das Roy Sujal, 28, son of Tagore Das Roy from Benepara under Kotchandpur upazila in Jhenaidah district. According to the victim’s father, Shankor joined Jessore’s Arabpur Branch of the BRAC Bank as an officer few days ago. He goes to his workplace by bus from his village home in Kotchandpur.
On Thursday night at around 10:30pm, when Shankor was standing at Jessore Arabpur bus stand, miscreants on a sedan car kidnapped him.
Later that night at about 12:30am, the abductors demanded a ransom of Tk two lakh calling Tagore over his cell phone. The abductors further said Shankor would be left at Baluhor bus stand of Kotchandpur upazila if the ransom was paid.
Quoting his son, Tagore Das said that the abductors again called him on Friday night around 10:30pm and threatened that they would kill his son if police help was taken.
Frightened Sankor asked his father to send the money through bKash.
Officer-in-Charge Shahidul Islam Shahin of Kotchandpur police station confirmed the matter and said: “The abductors, who are asking for the ransom over the phone, is staying at Kaliganj in Satkhira.” “We are trying to arrest them, he added.
