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2 police sergeants buy freedom for Tk 2 lakh

Incident smacks of mystery, probe ordered

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Two police sergeants allegedly abducted from Kafrul in the capital bought their freedom for Tk 2 lakh yesterday afternoon, 16 hours into their abduction.
The police could not confirm that the two traffic sergeants, Asaduzzaman and Monirul Alam, were abducted but started investigating the matter.
Faruq Ahmed, additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), has been tasked with finding whether the two were abducted.
Asaduzzaman and Monirul were taken to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital last night for treatment for the injuries inflicted on them by their 'captors.'
The incident smacked of mystery as relatives of the two cops alleged
they were abducted but the police were in doubt. No reporters were allowed to meet them yesterday.
Asaduzzaman resides in Shyamoli and Monirul in Adabar. The two went to Motijheel Wednesday evening and then hired a CNG three-wheeler to go to Mirpir-10 to meet their friend Sergeant Khorshed, said Moniruzzaman, Asaduzzaman's brother.
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"As they reached Mirpur-14 (Kafrul) at around 9:00pm, a white microbus hit their autorickshaw forcing the driver to stop. Seven to eight youths jumped down from the microbus and held them hostage," Monir told reporters.
The youths rubbed a kind of ointment on their faces to make them unconscious and then took them to an unknown place, he added.
"Someone phoned me from my brother's mobile phone at night and demanded Tk 5 lakh for their release and asked me to pay the money by today (Thursday)."
Mohammadpur police was then informed about theincident.
Monir said collecting Tk 2 lakh from their relatives, he phoned the abductors yesterday morning for the release of the sergeants.
"They asked me to go to Mirpur-10 roundabout alone with the money. When I reached there, they phoned me again and asked to go to Mirpur-14. While I was waiting for them, they phoned me again and asked to go to Kachukhet Bazar."
"Two youths came to me at 1:30pm and took the money, saying they would
release them in five minutes," said Monir, adding, he found the two coming to him seven minutes later from the direction of a slum near Kachukhet Bazar.
Monir took them to their house and later sent them to Rajarbagh Police Hospital. "The abductors beat them up for ransom," said Monir.
Kafrul police, meanwhile, could not confirm the incident. "We did not find any evidence of such incident," SubInspector Nasir, duty officer at Kafrul Police Station, told The Daily Star last night.
He said no-one contacted with them and no case was filed in this connection.
Officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station Saidur Rahman Babul termed the incident a mystery.
Some sources, however, expressed doubt about the 'abduction.' They said the incident might have been linked to 'illegal dealings' involving the two sergeants.
Asked, Deputy Commissioner of DMP (West zone) Mazhar Hossain said he heard the incident but did not know the details.