Staff Reporter :
Following the mass criticism over ‘missing’ three persons in a short time, hours after the missing of Education Minister’s Personal Officer (PO) and two other ‘missing’ men were reportedly arrested by the members of Detective Branch of Police from the city’s Gulsahn and Basila area on Sunday Evening.
The detained persons are Motaleb Hossain, 45, PO of Education Minister, Nasir Uddin, 35, Upper Division Assistant (UDA) of Education Ministry and Khaled Hasan Matin, the owner of of Lakehead Grammar School in Gulshan, Dhaka, said Masudrur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
“Detectives arrested Motaleb Hossain in Mohammadpur’s Basila around 8:30pm while Nasir Uddin and Khaled Hasan Matin were detained in Gulshan around the same time, Masudur said.
DMP’s Detective Branch Joint Commissioner Abdul Matin said Motaleb and Nasir were detained on charges of corruption while Khaled stands accused of funding militancy.
They were being interrogated about their ‘missing’ or self hiding, the police official said.
They would face action if law enforcers found guilty against them, the DC said.
He said the police found Tk 130,000 in cash on Nasir.
The Education Minister’s personal officer (PO), Motaleb Hossain, has allegedly been ‘abducted’, according to a police report filed by the family.
The 45-year-old was whisked away in a car by unidentified men on Saturday from the city’s Basila, says the report filed with the Hazaribagh Police Station.
“We have launched an investigation as soon as the incident was reported,” said the OC Mir Alimuzzaman
Motaleb Hossain, who lives in the government staff quarters on Green Road, went to Basila to oversee the construction of his house on Saturday, said a police quoting the family.
Four to five men arrived with a car at the construction site and told the watchmen that they wanted to speak with the owner about renting the premises, he said.
Soon after the men led away Hossain, said the family.
Meanwhile, Nasir Uddin, who reportedly went missing from the city’s Banani area on Thursday, Borhan Uddin, Inspector (Investigation) of Banani Police Station, told The New Nation on Saturday.
The Inspector also confessed that police are still in dark regarding the whereabouts of Nasir, also the Secretary General of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Government Staff and Officials’ Welfare Forum.
Earlier, the owner of Lakehead Grammar School was allegedly picked up on Saturday afternoon, said Gulshan police station Inspector (Investigation) Salauddin Miah.
According to the report, around seven to eight people in plainclothes picked up Khaled Hasan Matin.
