Special Correspondent :
Police have reported no progress in tracing at least ten persons who mysteriously went missing in the recent past from different places of Dhaka city.
Among the disappeared are journalist Utpal Das, North South University teacher Dr Mubashar Hasan, Managing Director (MD) of RMM Group Aniruddha Kumar Roy, MD of ABN Group Syed Sadat Ahmed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Kalyan Party MM Aminur Rahman, President of Bangladesh Janata Party (BJP) Mithun Chowdhury, Canada’s McGill University student Ishrak Ahmed and another student Arafat Rahman.
“Security and intelligence agencies are giving extreme importance to the issue and determined to discover the motives and whereabouts of the missing men,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told The New Nation yesterday.
On Wednesday, he told reporters, “Many people do it willingly. Many people are going missing or hiding themselves to embarrass us. This is difficult for detectives to find out those who are hiding willingly. However, we’ll trace them hopefully”.
Utpal, 29, remains missing since October 10. His father Chitta Ranjan Das and the Editor of News Portal Purboposhchimbd.news filed two general diaries with Motijheel Police Station on October 12 and 13 respectively in connection with the incident.
“We have been carrying out an extensive search and trying to trace all possible contacts to find him,” Officer-In-Charge (investigation)
of Motijheel Police Station Golam Rabbani told The New Nation yesterday.
ABN Group MD Syed Sadat Ahmed has allegedly been abducted from Banani in Dhaka, his family claims.
Sadat was forced out of his car and pushed into a microbus under the Banani overpass on August 22 in the afternoon, said his father Col (retd) Syed Shahabuddin Ahmed.
Police suspect Sadat’s business rivals maybe behind the abduction, but yet to make any headway in the abduction case.
As per a statement of Kalyan Party, its Secretary General Aminur Rahman has been missing since August 27 after he left Naya Paltan around 10 pm for his home at Aminbazar in Savar on the outskirts of the capital.
Chairman of Bangladesh Kalyan Party Major General (Retd) Syed Muhammad Ibrahim urged the government to find out Aminur immediately.
BJP President Mithun Chowdhury went missing since October 27. He was last seen in front of Sutrapur’s Lebu Market.
“Mithun was forced into a black microbus by a group of people who introduced themselves as law enforcers. They picked up him along with another BJP leader Ashiq Ghosh at about 12.10am on October 27 in front of the Lebu Market,” Mithun’s wife Sumona Chowdhury told The New Nation yesterday.
“I went to Sutrapur Police Station to lodge a missing diary, but the duty officer declined to accept the diary,” she alleged.
Aniruddha Roy, the Honorary Consul General of Belarus, went missing from Gulshan in Dhaka on August 27. He was abducted around 4:30pm on the day, alleged his family members.
Five days before Aniruddha went missing, ABN Group MD Sadat was allegedly abducted from Banani in the capital.
Investigators suspect disappearances of Aniruddha, Aminur and Sadat are inter-connected and three were picked up in a similar manner. But still they are in dark about their whereabouts.
Ishrak Ahmed, 20, allegedly went missing from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area on August 26. He was last seen near Star Kabab at Dhanmondi around 8:30pm on the very day, according to police and family sources.
Victim’s father Jamal Uddin Ahmed said that his son went out of their house around 5:30pm on that day to have snacks with his three friends, but he went traceless after 8:30pm. His cell phone was found switched off since then, he added.
Jamal filed a missing diary with Dhanmondi Police Station after Ishrak went missing.
Arafat Rahman, 24, who came to Dhaka from Nilphamari to visit his parents and later left for attending ‘Tablig Jamaat’ remain missing since October 7.
A general diary was filed on October 10 with the Mohammadpur Police Station after he went missing.
Investigators are yet to find clues behind the disappearances of the students.
In the latest case of mysterious disappearance, NSU Assistant Prof. Dr Mubashar Hasan went missing since November 7 and police are still in dark about his whereabouts.
“We have launched investigation into the incident, but we’re yet to ascertain whether the teacher disappeared or was abducted,” Officer-in-Charge of Khilgaon Police Station Moshiur Rahman told The New Nation yesterday.
Motahar Hossain, father of missing teacher Dr Mubashar Hasan, filed a general diary with Khilgaon Police Station in connection with the incident.
Police have reported no progress in tracing at least ten persons who mysteriously went missing in the recent past from different places of Dhaka city.
Among the disappeared are journalist Utpal Das, North South University teacher Dr Mubashar Hasan, Managing Director (MD) of RMM Group Aniruddha Kumar Roy, MD of ABN Group Syed Sadat Ahmed, Secretary General of Bangladesh Kalyan Party MM Aminur Rahman, President of Bangladesh Janata Party (BJP) Mithun Chowdhury, Canada’s McGill University student Ishrak Ahmed and another student Arafat Rahman.
“Security and intelligence agencies are giving extreme importance to the issue and determined to discover the motives and whereabouts of the missing men,” Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told The New Nation yesterday.
On Wednesday, he told reporters, “Many people do it willingly. Many people are going missing or hiding themselves to embarrass us. This is difficult for detectives to find out those who are hiding willingly. However, we’ll trace them hopefully”.
Utpal, 29, remains missing since October 10. His father Chitta Ranjan Das and the Editor of News Portal Purboposhchimbd.news filed two general diaries with Motijheel Police Station on October 12 and 13 respectively in connection with the incident.
“We have been carrying out an extensive search and trying to trace all possible contacts to find him,” Officer-In-Charge (investigation)
of Motijheel Police Station Golam Rabbani told The New Nation yesterday.
ABN Group MD Syed Sadat Ahmed has allegedly been abducted from Banani in Dhaka, his family claims.
Sadat was forced out of his car and pushed into a microbus under the Banani overpass on August 22 in the afternoon, said his father Col (retd) Syed Shahabuddin Ahmed.
Police suspect Sadat’s business rivals maybe behind the abduction, but yet to make any headway in the abduction case.
As per a statement of Kalyan Party, its Secretary General Aminur Rahman has been missing since August 27 after he left Naya Paltan around 10 pm for his home at Aminbazar in Savar on the outskirts of the capital.
Chairman of Bangladesh Kalyan Party Major General (Retd) Syed Muhammad Ibrahim urged the government to find out Aminur immediately.
BJP President Mithun Chowdhury went missing since October 27. He was last seen in front of Sutrapur’s Lebu Market.
“Mithun was forced into a black microbus by a group of people who introduced themselves as law enforcers. They picked up him along with another BJP leader Ashiq Ghosh at about 12.10am on October 27 in front of the Lebu Market,” Mithun’s wife Sumona Chowdhury told The New Nation yesterday.
“I went to Sutrapur Police Station to lodge a missing diary, but the duty officer declined to accept the diary,” she alleged.
Aniruddha Roy, the Honorary Consul General of Belarus, went missing from Gulshan in Dhaka on August 27. He was abducted around 4:30pm on the day, alleged his family members.
Five days before Aniruddha went missing, ABN Group MD Sadat was allegedly abducted from Banani in the capital.
Investigators suspect disappearances of Aniruddha, Aminur and Sadat are inter-connected and three were picked up in a similar manner. But still they are in dark about their whereabouts.
Ishrak Ahmed, 20, allegedly went missing from Dhaka’s Dhanmondi area on August 26. He was last seen near Star Kabab at Dhanmondi around 8:30pm on the very day, according to police and family sources.
Victim’s father Jamal Uddin Ahmed said that his son went out of their house around 5:30pm on that day to have snacks with his three friends, but he went traceless after 8:30pm. His cell phone was found switched off since then, he added.
Jamal filed a missing diary with Dhanmondi Police Station after Ishrak went missing.
Arafat Rahman, 24, who came to Dhaka from Nilphamari to visit his parents and later left for attending ‘Tablig Jamaat’ remain missing since October 7.
A general diary was filed on October 10 with the Mohammadpur Police Station after he went missing.
Investigators are yet to find clues behind the disappearances of the students.
In the latest case of mysterious disappearance, NSU Assistant Prof. Dr Mubashar Hasan went missing since November 7 and police are still in dark about his whereabouts.
“We have launched investigation into the incident, but we’re yet to ascertain whether the teacher disappeared or was abducted,” Officer-in-Charge of Khilgaon Police Station Moshiur Rahman told The New Nation yesterday.
Motahar Hossain, father of missing teacher Dr Mubashar Hasan, filed a general diary with Khilgaon Police Station in connection with the incident.
