The family members of the eleven accused persons, who were earlier sent to jail for their involvement with the abduction of a businessman, have denied the allegation citing that the incident took place centring the victim’s manpower export business.
The family members claimed that the businessman Bazlur Rashid ran a manpower export business besides his cloth trading and he cheated the accused with false promises of sending them abroad.
They also added that Bazlur took money from one of the accused, Sri Sujon Kumer, and did not return the amount back despite several promises.
Sujon’s uncle Rafiq told the Dhaka Tribune: “Bazlu took Tk 220,000 from Sujon alluring him with a job abroad some two years back. But, he never received his job offer. After several arbitrations, we understood that we have been cheated. Later a local mediation fixed that our money would be returned on Thursday [April 30]. As per the promise, our relatives went to get the money.”
Claiming that Bazlu was trying to escape the scene when Sujon along with others reached his place, he added: “People from our side caught Bazlu and tried to take him to nearby police station using the tinted-glass microbus. But, Bazlu’s people assaulted our people and handed them over to police claiming that they were trying to abduct him.”
Rafiq also claimed that they have a written document that contained the record of money transaction. However, Bazlu denied the allegations.