Three youths, arrested on Tuesday on charge of abducting a schoolteacher and his friend on February 23, were placed on remand yesterday.

The arrestees are Md Khalid Siraj alias Rocky, 24, son of Md Siraj Uddin of Asrampara, Md Azad, 30, son of Abul Kashem of Munshipara, and Jaban Ali, 45, son oflateAbdul Kader of Gowalpara under Thakurgaon municipality.

Police produced them in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court, seeking a five-day remand. Judicial Magistrate Masud Pervez granted one day remand.

Police said the gang picked up Ibrahim Khalil, 42, a teacher of Thakurgaon Government Boys' High

School, and his friend Yakub Ali, 40, from in front of Munshipara graveyard and took them to a house at DC Bosti in Thakurgaon municipality.

The abductors forced them to pose nude with a girl and snapped it by a cellphone camera. They also took signatures of the victims on non-judicial stamps and freed them at midnight.

The gang phoned the schoolteacher and his friend several times demanding Tk 80,000. Otherwise, they threatened to circulate the nude picture.

On a complaint filed by Ibrahim Khalil with Takhurgaon police station, law enforcers arrested the youths in the municipality area, tracking call lists on cellphones.