A bank officer, who was kidnapped from Rajshahi, was rescued from Tangail yesterday after 13 days of his abduction.
The victim was ARM Akhteruzzaman, an officer of Exim Bank Ltd, Bogra branch. Recently he had been suspended from the bank for financial scam.
Local people found him, hands and legs tide and blindfolded, abandoned beside Nasir Glass Factory in Mirzapur around 9.30pm, said Md Hasanuzzaman, younger brother of Akhteruzzaman.
He might have been left there by the abductors, said Hasanuzzaman.
Sub-Inspector Selim Badsha of Sadar Model police station said, Akhteruzzaman, senior assistant vice-president of the bank, was kidnapped from his residence in Sultanabad area in the city by a gang of unknown miscreants on January 21 last.
Later, Afsar Uddin, father of the victim filed a case in this connection.