Local people rescued two children from Gazipur on Friday, 26 hours after they had been abducted. Locals also managed to detain one of the abductors and handed him over to police after beating him severely.
The arrested was Md Shah Alam, 25, the son of Imran Ali from Dubajora village under the Mithaban Upazila of Kishoreganj district.
Sub-inspector Jashim Uddin of Joydebpur police station said Alam and his accomplices abducted two children Shahin, 7, the son of Idrish Ali and Imran, 8, the son of Asar Uddin, around 11am on Thursday, and hid them in a secret place.
Later, when Shah Alam returned to Idrish’s house on Friday and started acting weird, local people started questioning and beating him. At one point Alam confessed his involvement in the abduction and told them that they had abducted those two children in order to sell them to a smuggler.
On Friday, around 12pm, local people and relatives of the victims rescued the two children from Chanda Chawrasta, following the information provided to them by Alam.
Upon receiving this information, police rushed in and rescued the injured Alam from the angry mob.
Md Shah Alam is Idrish Ali’s relative. Both Idrish Ali and Md Asar Uddin work as rickshaw drivers and live in a rented house in Uttar Khaikoir area of Gazipur City.
A case was lodged with the Joydebpur police station regarding the incident.