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11 tiny tots return home

Trafficker on remand

Staff Correspondent
Eleven kids, rescued from Pallabi area in the city on Monday evening, returned to their parents in the early hours of yesterday.
The residents of Pallabi rescued the kids aged between eight months and 10 years while a man was transporting them in a CNG-run autorickshaw from a local slum and handed him over to the law enforcers.
The rescued children were identified as Faisal, 8, Mhnsura, 6, Seema, 8, Meem, 6, eight-month-old Asif, Sajib, 7, Sagar, 10, nine-month-old Rabbi, Suman, 4, Sujan, 7, and Johnnie, 9. Seema, Meem and Asif are siblings.
Mirpur police arrested CNG driver Khokon, who convinced the children playing at Muslim Camp, a slum in Pallabi, to go with him after alluring them with the prospect of getting chocolates and other delicious foods, and seized his auto-rickshaw on Monday evening.
Police sent Khokon to a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court asking a five-day remand to find out the reasons behind the incident.
The court granted two days' remand, Sub-Inspector (SI) of Mirpur Police Station Kumruzzaman said.
The SI also said Khokon gave suspicious information, adding that actual fact would come out after interrogation.
Visiting Muslim Camp, The Daily Star correspondent found 10 kids at their respective houses while the rest one Sagar who came to his relative’s house on Monday morning returned to his home yesterday morning.
Johnnie told The Daily Star that the CNG driver gave them a ride for some time on Monday noon and left them in the place where the driver picked them up, adding that the driver came again in the afternoon and allured them of sweetmeats and a trip.
“We all got into the vehicle and
he started travelling. But he travelled for a long time and took them to an unknown place that scared us much. One of the kids Sajib jumped down from the vehicle, as it was moving slowly then," he said.
Siddique Ahmed, one of the witnesses, said when locals asked the driver to stop as one of the kids dropped from it, he tried to rush away ignoring the locals, causing suspicion among them.
But when the vehicle got stuck in a traffic jam, they discovered other kids inside the vehicle, he added.
When the driver could not give satisfactory answer and the kids raised hue and cry, locals dragged the driver out of it and handed him over to police after giving him a thrashing.
Monni Begum, mother of Johnnie, said Sagar informed his father of the incident from the spot. Later, guardians released their kids from Mirpur Police Station early yesterday.