Staff Reporter :
An intern doctor of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital (SSMCH) has been found after 30 hours of his ‘missing’.
Shamim Khan Topu was found in an unconscious state in front of the Detective Branch (DB) office on the Minto Road on Saturday night, claimed Wahidul Islam, Deputy Commissioner (Tejgaon Division), Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
No one from Topu’s family could be reached for his whereabouts after rescue. The DC of Police, however, said that police would interrogate him to ascertain whether it was a case of kidnapping or missing?
Dr. Topu, originally from Tangail, started his internship in the hospital about a month ago after completing his MBBS last year.
According to witnesses, his cell phone was recharged with Tk 200 around 11:00am on Friday.
Sometimes after, an unknown person phoned him and said that an amount of Tk 200 had been sent mistakenly. The doctor was also requested to go to a nearby top-up vendor to return the amount.
Dr. Topu along with a friend went to the vendor, but could not pay back the amount.
He then went back to his dormitory. Around 2:00pm, when he standing in front of the hospital’s outdoor section on his way to Dhanmondi, three men in civil dress pushed him into a white microbus and drove it.
