Staff Reporter :
Police have been investigating the incident of the sudden disappearance of four youths in the city, including two students of North South University, DMP sources said.
Though six days have already been elapsed, law enforcers are yet to find any clue to their sudden disappearance or whether they have any links to militancy.
Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said two missing diaries have been recorded in this regard and police are discharging their earnest efforts to trace them.
The sudden disappearance has caused serious concern to their families, given that the Holey Artisan Bakery attackers and many other militant suspects disappeared in a similar fashion, the police official said.
Of them, Zain Hossain Khan Pavel and Shafayat Hossain are students of North South University and childhood friends, while Mahedi Hasan is a student of BM College in Barisal and Md Sujan is an employee at an advertising firm in capital Dhaka, according to their families.Sohel Rana, Sub-Inspector at Banani Police Station and investigating officer of the case, said they have collected security camera footage of a restaurant where the four had snacks together moments before they went traceless and their mobile phones became unreachable. The family members of Pavel, Mahedi and Sujan, ruled out the possibility of their involvement in militancy, the SI said. On Friday, Pavel’s father Ismail Hossain Khan filed a general diary with Banani Police Station about the disappearance of Pavel, Shafayat and Sujan. According to the GD, Pavel, 23, went to Banani Super Market between 8:00pm and 8:30pm on Thursday to get some papers photocopied, and didn’t return home.
It was also mentioned that his two friends Shafayat and Sujan, who were with him at that time, also went missing.
The families of Pavel and Sujan live in the same building in the capital’s Banani area. Pavel’s father Ismail Khan said, “I have been in touch with law enforcement agencies … I hope they will find him soon.” Sujan’s elder brother Suman filed a GD with Banani Police Station on Friday. He said that he had been looking for his brother at hospitals and morgues in the capital. Mahedi’s uncle Mahabub Hawladar said, Mahedi and Sujan are from the same village in Barisal. Mahedi came to the capital on November 26 for a job interview and had been staying at one of his aunt’s house.
“He told his aunt that he was going to meet Sujan to fix some issues with his laptop computer he bought from Sujan,” said Mahabub. Mahedi recently got married and was desperately looking for a job, he added.
