A woman got her 14-month-old only child back in her own lap on Friday, seven days after the girl had been abducted at the capital’s Adabar.
The baby girl was abducted allegedly by one of the woman’s coworker at a restaurant near the area.
Rapid Action Battalion personnel arrested the alleged abductor Nasir Uddin alias Nesar, 32, from his village Atakora under Chouddagram, Comilla on Thursday night.
Following Nesar’s confession, the child, Anika, was rescued from a house in the capital’s Dakkhin Peererbagh on Friday afternoon.
The abductor Nesar had allegedly been demanding Tk1.5 lakh as ransom from the child’s parents -- Rumana Akhter, an employee of a restaurant in Adabar, and rickshaw-puller Abul Hossain, said Lt Col SM Azad, Commanding Officer of RAB 2 while addressing a press briefing at the RAB 2 offices in the capital’s Agargaon in the afternoon.
The child’s parents also attended the briefing where they described how the baby girl was abducted and rescued.
“Being one of my coworkers at a restaurant in Adabar, Nesar had asked to hold my child in the evening on January 3 and go out for a walk,” said Rumana.
“But he never came back with my child and at around 11:30pm, he made a phone call demanding Tk1.5 lakh as ransom.”
Rumana said, “Nesar also had threatened us saying unless the money is not paid, we would have to see our child’s dead body in front of our house.”
The father Abul Hossain said he had filed a general diary with Adabar police station the day after and had also informed the matter to RAB 2 personnel urging them to rescue their only child.
At the briefing, Rab 2 chief Lt Col SM Azad said the mother had broken into tears while urging for her child to be brought back to her and expressed their dire financial state.
“After the friend of the abductor had left away the child, locals in the area found the 14-month old baby abandoned, but they could not return the child to her mother as they neither knew her parents nor was the child able to say anything,” said the Rab official.