The law enforcers have failed to trace the Chittagong-based businessman who was abducted from the capital’s Uttara area on June 2 allegedly by some people identifying themselves as DB police.
Investigators said they were considering it as an abducting case, but also suspect that the man might have gone into hiding as he had a lot of debt.
Md Gias Uddin Kusum, 43, has a ship-breaking business in Chittagong.
On Thursday, his wife Afsana Nur Joli at a press conference in the capital alleged that the police did not want to take the case in the first place. They registered the case three days later.
Kusum came to Dhaka on July 2 and had been staying at his friend Monjurul Karim’s house at Uttara. Meanwhile, he met a taxi driver named Mohiuddin, 35, whom the businessman asked to pick him up the next day.
Around noon on the next day, when Kusum and taxi driver started for his friend’s office, two people on a motorcycle came and started argument with the driver in Uttara sector 10 area. Suddenly, a white microbus came and forcibly took them into the vehicle.
The kidnappers released Mohiuddin around 2:30pm. He then went to Monjur’s house and told him about the incident.
Following this, Kusum’s brother Jasim went to Uttara west police station to file a kidnapping case. But police did not take the case.
At the press conference, Jasim said Kusum had a dispute over money transaction with Md Jewel, Md Mahbubur Rahman Badal and Md Faruq. They had also threatened Kusum with dire consequences several times, Jasim claimed.
Inspector (investigation) of the police station Biplob Kumar Shil said they were yet to trace the location of the abducted businessman with the help of DB police. Investigation Officer SI Md Ashiqur Rahman Dewan said as it was a clueless incident. So it become difficult for them to arrest the kidnappers.
He said the taxi driver could only mention about a person aged around 35 with dark skin.
The IO said Kusum had borrowed money from the three businessmen in question.
