Staff Reporter :
A family on Friday demanded the intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to trace the former Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officer, who reportedly went missing four months ago.
Shamima Akhtar, wife of Lt Col Hasinur Rahman, a former Commanding Officer (CO) living in Dhaka, made an appeal at a press conference in the Crime Reporters Association of Bangladesh (CRAB) Hall in the city’s Segun Bagicha on Friday afternoon.
“We are helpless without him. Honourable Prime Minister, you are the last hope, last resort. Please direct law enforcers to trace him out,” she pleaded.
None other than the law enforcers could pick him up from a secured place like Mirpur DOHS, she added, claiming that her husband became the prey of a conspiracy.
Lt Col Hasinur Rahman, who was also in the army (sacked), was allegedly picked up by plainclothes men at around 10:30pm on August 8 when he was on his way home.
He cried for help when the plainclothes men tried to force him into a microbus. As locals approached to help him, the men, wearing jackets with “DB” inscribed on them, told them they were Detectives.
Coming in two microbuses, they also picked up the caretaker of the house as he tried to capture photos but later dropped him on the way. Both RAB and police, however, denied the charge.
Shamima filed a general diary with Pallabi Police Station after the incident.
