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Bid to abduct rights leader?

ASK director dodges microbus that waylays him

Staff Correspondent
Nur Khan, director of the rights body Ain o Shalish Kendra, yesterday said he had narrowly escaped an abduction attempt near his Lalmatia office in the capital.
A group of six to seven people in
a white Noah microbus tried to abduct him around 5:10pm while he was returning home on a rickshaw with a colleague, he said.
In the wake of a recent abduction spree, a sense of insecurity has been prevailing among citizens, especially after the killing of seven abductees in Narayanganj.
Nur, who is in charge of the ASK investigation unit, has been demanding the
FROM PAGE 1 removal of top officials of the law enforcement agencies for the sake of a fair investigation into the sevenmurder.
He said he investigates incidents of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Naturally, agencies responsible for the killings may have been holding grudges against him.
"I cannot think of anything else," he added while talking about the possible motive behind the kidnapping bid.
Nur told The Daily Star that having just emerged from his office, he noticed the microbus parked across the street.
As the rickshaw that he and his colleague took moved ahead, the microbus began to follow them. Some 30 yards away from his office, the microbus sped up and stopped, blocking their way.
"Sensing trouble, I told the rickshaw-puller to turn around," he said. But, without wasting time, he jumped off and rushed back to the office, leaving his colleague on the rickshaw.
All those in the microbus were staring at him, he added.
The colleague, who preferred anonymity, said the microbus drove on for several yards more, stopped again for a few moments and left.
Nur filed a general diary with Mohammadpur Police Station and cops visited the spot.
Contacted, ASK Executive Director Sultana Kamal said Nur has all along been vocal against enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, abductions and other rights violation.
"I think, as Nur Khan being the director signs all our statements issued involving Rab’s extrajudicial killings, he might have become a target of Rab’s wrath," she went on.
"He has also been a very harsh critic of the abduction and killing of the seven people in Narayanganj."
Sultana Kamal, also a former caretaker government adviser, added that ASK is the only organisation persistently criticising Rab since the formation of the elite force.
"As Rab is now exposed and people are pointing the finger at them, it is quite normal that the force will blame Ain o Shalish Kendra for all of this."
Nur also alleged a group had been following him since last month. A person even went to the ASK office on April 6 to get information about his daily activities.
On April 20, he was on a rickshaw on Road 27 in Dhanmondi. At one point, he felt that someone on a motorbike was following him from a distance. He returned to the office and later filed a CD with Mohammadpur Police Station.