Jhumjhum Akter Jhuma, a runner-up in a television talent hunt for child singers, was discovered at the victim support centre ofTejgaon Police Station in the capital yesterday, 15 days after she was abducted by an acquaintance in Narsingdi.

Narsingdi police said her abductor, Md Israfil, 35, a businessman in Ashulia, secretly dropped her at the centre and vanished to protect himself as he was sued recently.

Tejgaon police handed Jhuma over to Narsingdi police in the presence of her mother Jasmine Begum, and they left for Narsingdi yesterday, said Asaduzzaman, officer-in-chaige, Narsingdi Police Station.

The OC said Jhuma, 14, a ninth grader at Cambrian School and College in Dhaka, would be produced before a court on Thursday as per the legal procedure.

Jasmine filed an abduction case against Israfil and his driver Faisal, 25, with a Narsingdi court on August 4.

Talking to journalists on the tribunal premises that day, Jasmine alleged that the two men bundled Jhuma into a microbus in Narsingdi district town when she was going to her village home in Shibpur upazila from her residence in the town by a rickshaw on July 23.

Jhuma, the first runner-up in the Meridian-Channel-i Khudey Gaanraj in 2008, got acquainted with Israfil at a concert in Savar recently, her mother said. Israfil, who is already married to two women, wanted to marry Jhuma, she added.