Staff Reporter :
A kidnapped Bangladeshi migrant worker was rescued from Malaysia on Thursday after five days of the abduction.
The victim has been identified as Mahbub Alam, 36, son of Late Abul Kashem from Bhola district.
A joint team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Malaysia Police in separate drives detained six persons for their alleged involvement with the kidnapping.
The three arrested men by RAB are Dulal, 40, Rupchad Ali, 25, from Tangail, and Ali Ahmed Rifat, 29, from Comilla, RAB official said.
But Malaysian Police did not disclose names of the three other arrested Bangladeshi nationals in Kuala Lumpur, MSK Shaheen, first secretary (consular wing) at Bangladesh High Commission to Kuala Lumpur, told the media on Sunday afternoon. Mufti Mahmud Khan, Director of Legal and Media Wing of the RAB, told the reporters in press briefing in the city’s Kawranbazar area on Sunday morning.
In a drive, a team of RAB-3 arrested the three alleged kidnappers in Malibagh of Dhaka on November 28 and 29, the elite force official said.
Earlier, the victim’s brother Nazmul Haq Sabuj filed a complaint to RAB-3 mentioning that some Bangladeshis based in Malaysia kidnapped his brother from the country’s Pahang district on November 26.
The alleged kidnappers demanded Tk 3 lakh from Mahbub for his release, the RAB official said.
“We detained local agents of the kidnappers when they came to receive the ransom money at Malibagh in the capital. We were also able to rescue Mahbub from the kidnappers with the help of Bangladesh High Commission and Malaysian police on December 1,” he said.
The victim was brought back home from Malaysia on Saturday night, he said. Mahbub Alam alleged that the kidnappers along with two Malaysian nationals picked him up from his residence in Pahang at night. “Two Malaysians introduced themselves as members of Malaysian police and asked me to go with them to a local police station,” he said.
He claimed that the kidnappers tortured him inhumanly for realizing the ransom.
