Dhaka, Jul 4 – Poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar who had gone ‘missing and then rescued’ was brought back to the capital on Tuesday morning.Adabar police said a team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) reached Dhaka along with pro-opposition activist Mazhar from Khulna around 9am.
Meanwhile, Didar Ahmmed, deputy inspector general (DIG) of Khulna Range, told journalists that Farhad Mazhar was brought to Fultola Police Station around 12am after his ‘rescue’ from a bus of ‘Hanif Paribahan’ at Nayapara in Abhaynagar upazila on Monday night.
The DIG said Mazhar was not kidnapped as he had gone out of his home ‘on his own for a visit’.
Police traced Mazhar at Nayapara in Abhaynagar upazila on Monday night, over 18 hours after, his family said, he was kidnapped from the capital.
Police found him at the ‘Hanif Paribahan’ bus around 11:30 pm while he was returning to Dhaka from Khulna, said officer-in-charge of Abhaynagar Police Station Anisur Rahman.
Earlier, Farhad Mazhar.s Family sources said he was kidnapped by unknown miscreants from Adabar in the capital in the early morning of Monday.
The was called over phone by not yet identified caller. After half an hour of going out of his Adabar residene at about 5-10 am he called from his mobile phone and told her wife his captors asked for Taka three million ransom or else would kill him.
Being alerted police said they tracked Farhad Mazhar’s mobile phone and by afternoon was sure he was in Khulna area.
After his rescue passengers of the bus were quoted as saying, the bus was halted at Nayapara for about 40 minutes following which Rab members entered the vehicle and took him down from a a seat at the rear. – UNB
