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Kidnappers local goons

Hrishikesh Das Lane victims say criminals change political identity with change of government

Mukhlesur Rahman
Those who kidnapped nine members of a joint family from their house at Hrishikesh Das Lane in the capital on Saturday were local goons, victims and locals said.
These gangsters are involved in criminal activities including land grab in the area by using political clout of the ruling party, they said, adding that they change their political identities with the change of the government.
The victims said the criminals have a nexus with those who are involved in forging land documents.
One and a half months back, they received a paper from the local land office that says that their land was sold to one Idris Mia of Joydevpur in Gazipur on June 28 in 1974.
One of the victims Nitai Chandra Das, 70, said "Abductors are out to dislodge us from our ancestral house with forged documents and involve us in cases. My ancestors were born and brought up in this building and we have been
living here for over hundred years."
If the land was sold in 1974, why the owner has not claimed the land for all these years, he asked, adding that the local goons are trying to grab the land through forged document.
Another elderly local seeking anonymity alleged that the same gangsters were also trying to grab his press with fake document.
Four criminals inside the workshop were posted but when police raided the place they caught them but later they got off scot-free, he said.
When asked BM Forman Ali, investigation officer (IO) of the case lodged against detained four kidnappers along with 10-12 unidentified persons, said they detained four kidnappers from the street near the spot but no kidnapper was found in the garage.
Officer-in-charge (OC) Tofazzal Hossain of Sutrapur Police station said they produced the detainees before a Dhaka Court, which put them on a five-day remand.
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In preliminary interrogation the detainees admitted to their involvement in the abduction, he said.
Victims alleged that police are yet to recover the looted things and nab other criminals.
At the victims' residence l eight-year-old Swama said she ’could not forget the horrified incident that she experienced early Saturday when local armed criminals kidnapped her along with her eight other family’ members and kept her gagged and tied with others for over eight hours.
Swama, a student of class II in Ekrampur Government Primary School in the area, with tears rolling down her cheeks said, 'It was unbearable; I was groaning in agony. The tape on my mouth was removed for only 10 to 15 minutes for drinking water. At that time I requested them repeatedly to set me free so that I could take my exams. But they’ gagged my mouth again."
Panic-stricken family mem -bers were so shocked that they did not open their shops—a small tailor shop and a grocery-- their only means of earning. Children of the family did not attend their schools and colleges; even they did not prepare their meals yesterday.
, Armed local criminals ’ picked up Nitai Chandra Das.
70, his cousin Shambhu Das. 50. Shambhu's wife Kajol Rani Das. 42, her son Sajal, 14, and daughter Swarna, 8, Shambhu's brother Mohabir Das. 45. his wife Lakshmi Rani Das. 38, her daughters Beauty,
18, and Sweety, 12, from their houses at around 3:00am on Saturday and confined them to a nearby Janata Engineering Workshop.
On information police rescued them after eight hours and arrested four criminals including the owner of the workshop, Hossain Mohammad Babul. Police suspect the kidnapping has links to grabbing the piece of land on which the victims have anover 100-year-old building.
Meanwhile State Minister for Home Shamsul HaqueTuku visited the house of the victims yesterday and assured them of their security and safety.
Criminals do not belong to any party, he said, adding that the kidnappers would be brought to justice.