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2 students rescued 5 hrs after kidnap in Chittagong

Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Police yesterday rescued two college students and arrested one suspected kidnapper from the city's Hazari Lane area within five hours of their kidnap.
The rescued students are Md. Shahanur Hossain Apollo, 21, son of Md. Mostafa and an undergraduate student of Chittagong Government City College, and Tanvir Rahman, 22, son of Md. Ohidullah and an undergraduate student of Noapara College in Raozan.
The suspected abductor is Irfan Quaderi, 22, son of Anis Quaderi of the city's Bundel Road area in Patharghata and a BBA third semester student of the International Islamic University of Chittagong (IIUC).
Police also seized a cellular phone and held Irfan's pet dog.
This was the ninth incident of abduction in Chittagong in 50 days since the kidnap of business magnate Jamal Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury.
Shahanur and Tanvir told newsmen in Kotwali Police Station that on Friday they along with two other friends -- Shafiul Alam Ripon, 21, and Md Sharek Chowdhury, 20, -- had planned to watch a movie at night at Cinema Palace on the KC Dey Road.
But they were late for the movie and refused entry into the hall. The four then had dinner at Madina Restaurant adjacent to the hall at around 9:40pm.
As they came out of the restaurant at around 10:40pm, some 10 to 12 people including Irfan took them to an abandoned house at Hazari Lane and held them hostage there, they said.
The abductors beat them up severely and took away their belongings. At around 1:30am they released Ripon and Sharek, asking them to bring along Tk 1 lakh as ransom for release of the two others.
Ripon and Sharek, also undergraduate students at Hazeratazu Degree College and Noapara College, went straight to Kotwali Police Station and informed the police of the matter.
A police team raided the house and arrested Irfan, but the other kidnappers escaped.
Pleading his innocence with the Kotwali police, Irfan said he had gone to the area to meet his friends. He, however, said his friends Johnny, Tarek, Absar, Farhad, Jamal and a few unknown youths might have been involved in the incident.
Irfan added that Johnny owns the abandoned house. Police were looking for the other kidnappers. A case has been lodged.
Meanwhile, there has been no information about the whereabouts of businessman Jamal, law enforcers and sources said.
A highly placed police official said, "The law enforcers engaged in the rescue operation at Fatikchhari belt are not getting any feedback from their sources for the last one week. So, we have slowed down the operation a bit."
Also, the law enforcers are yet to arrest Fatikchhari Union Parishad Chairman Abul Kasem, the prime accused in the Jamal abduction case.
Sources said Kasem has reportedly crossed over into the Indian state of Tripura through Khagrachhari. Police could have arrested him while he was staying at Fatikchhari, they added.