STAFF CORRESPONDENT

A group of plainclothes men claiming to be DB officials picked up an employee of a printing press from the capital’s Fakirapool on Tuesday. His employer went missing after the incident, said family members.

Saiful Islam, 28, a designer of Herar Jyoti Design and Printing, and Mominul Islam, 47, the owner, remained traceless as of filing of this report last night.

Quoting witnesses, Masum Billah, brother-in-law of Mominul, said some plainclothes men claiming to be Detective Brach officials went to the press on Aliza Tower around noon on Tuesday.

They interrogated Saiful, picked him up and took away computers from the press, Masum alleged.

Wishing anonymity, a trader at Aliza Tower also gave a similar account of the incident.

Masum said, “Mominul Islam was away from the press during the raid. But his mobile phone remains switched off since then.”

He said Mominul’s family members went to Motijheel and Paltan police stations to know about the whereabouts of the two, but nobody said anything.

Masum said they later came to know that a DB team detained the two, but there was no official confirmation.

Rajib Al Masud, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch (Motijheel Division) of police, yesterday said his team neither detained any such persons nor conducted any raid in Fakirapool on Tuesday.

Mostafizur Rahman, a sub-inspector at Motijheel Police Station, said he visited the press, collected CCTV footage from Aliza Tower, and conducted an investigation into the incident.

Asked if any DB team carried out a raid, he told this newspaper that he would only comment on the issue after having instructions from high officials.

CCTV footage showed that plainclothes men taking away computers from Aliza Tower at 1:20pm on Tuesday.