Police rescued a schoolboy from Tangail when the boy contacted them after escaping from the kidnappers yesterday, five days after he went missing.
The rescued boy’s name is Anik, 12, the son of Mobarak Ali from Kachuar Bohor village under Fenchuganj upazila in Sylhet. Anik is a student of class seven in PPM High School.
Officer-in-Charge of Fenchuganj police station Nandan Kanti Dhar told the Dhaka Tribune that Anik left home on September 1 after a fight with his parents. On the next day, his father lodged a general diary with the local police station.
The OC also informed that after leaving his house, the boy came to Dhaka, where he was abducted by some miscreants, who extorted money from his father over the last few days. When the boy became sick on Wednesday, the abductors admitted him to a hospital in Bogra.
On Thursday night the kidnappers started for Dhaka with the boy. On the way, Anik got off from the car telling the abductors that he wanted to go to the bathroom, and went to a local shop, where he requested the owner to let him use his cell phone. From that shop he called the officer-in-charge of Fenchuganj police station, who informed the Tangail Highway police about the boy’s location. The highway police rescued the boy from that shop and took him to Mirzaganj police station. Meanwhile, the kidnappers fled the scene. When informed, a team of police, along with Anik’s father, from Fenchuganj went to Mirzaganj on that very night.
Around 4pm yesterday, OC Nandan told to this reporter that members of police, with Anik, had reached Dhaka by then, and they would return to Sylhet by night.