Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a schoolboy on Wednesday, five days after he went missing, from a ditch at Monairkandi village in Homna upazila after five days of his abduction.The deceased was identified as Riad, 12, a sixth grader of Nilkkhi High School of the upazila and son of Siraj Miah of the village.Jahangir Alam, maternal uncle of Riad said Riad and his family used to live hand to mouth. So Riad started operating a battery-run auto-rickshaw for hire alongside his studies to support his family.Riad was abducted on November 25 (Saturday last), while he set out for work, Jahangir Alam added.The abductors called Babul Miah, the owner of the easy-bike, with a mobile phone belonging to Riad and demanded Tk 70,000 as ransom.Following their phone call and demand of ransom the family members informed the matter to Muradnagar Police Station.Later police arrested three abductors when they along with family members went to the abductors to meet their demand at a banana orchard in Uttarthrish village of Mauradnagar upazila.Police seized the easy-bike from the spot.Rasul Ahmed Nizami, officer-in-charge of Homna Police Station said the arrested were identified as Md Shaiful islam, 28, son of Siraj Miah of Shibnagar Box Bepari village of Debidwar upazila, Khabir Hossain, 28, son of Barik Miah of the same Village and Md Helal, 23, son of Yunus Mia ofUttarthrish village of Mauradnagar upazila.Later police handed them over to the Homna Police Station.Jahangir Alam also filed an abduction case with Homna Police station on Monday.Police sought seven days remand of the abductors producing them before the court of Comilla Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akhtar and court granted 2 days.Gleaning information from them in the remand police arrested Jahangir, a resident of Ramkrisnapur village of the upazila on Wednesday.Later police recovered the body from the area at noon following the information which Jahangirgave to the police.They abductor confessed to the police of their involvement with the abduction and killing, OC added.UNB news agency
