An employee of a private company, who had been abducted a month ago from the capital’s Mirpur, was rescued from Munshiganj yesterday.
Detective Branch of police also arrested four people, Rafiqul Islam Nayan, 29, a former employee of Jaaz Multimedia, and his associates Kamrul Hasan, 27, Moinul Hossain Babu, 30, and Arif Hossain Milon, 44, for their alleged involvement with the kidnapping of Abu Bakkar Sabuj, account officer of Jaaz Multimedia.
Police said Sabuj had been abducted from Mirpur section 10 on April 26 on the way to his office located at Moghbazar.
After the abduction, the abductors demanded Tk1.10 crore as ransom from Sabuj’s family.
Following the kidnapping, Abdur Rahim, Sabuj’s father, filed a case with Mirpur police station, accusing Sheesh Monwar, chief executive officer of Jaaz Multimedia.
Later, police officials had arrested Sheesh Monwar and Production Manager Uzzal and placed them on remand.
At a press briefing yesterday afternoon, officials of the Detective Branch (DB) said they had arrested Nayan, Milon and Babu from the capital’s Mirpur after tracking the mobile phones used to make the ransom demands.
Following their statements, police rescued Sabuj from Munshiganj and also arrested Babu.
At the press briefing, Sabuj said Nayan was his friend and being a friend, he (Nayan) had asked him to get into a car at Mirpur Section10.
“After having a drink in the car, I became senseless,” said Sabuj.
“There were five persons, including the driver in the car,” said Sabuj, adding that the kidnappers had kept him confined at a house in Fatulla, Narayanganj for 25 days. Later, he had been shifted to a house at Kosba under Tongiibari upazila in Munsiganj.
Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam, who was present at the press conference, said, “Nayan had abducted Sabuj with the intention of trapping Sheesh Monowar and Jaaz Multimedia owner Abdul Aziz.”
During interrogation, Nayan told the police that he had kidnapped Sabuj to take revenge on some officials of Jazz Multimedia as he had had been sacked from the office because of Sheesh Monowar.