A 14-month-old baby girl was rescued from a house in capital’s Mirpur area after seven days of abduction.
Rapid Action Battalion-2 arrested the alleged abductor Nasir Uddin alias Nesar, 32, from his village Atakora under Chouddagram in Comilla on Thursday night.
Following his statement, the child named Anika, was rescued from the house yesterday afternoon.
Nesar had been demanding Tk1.5lakh as ransom from the child’s parents Rumana Akhter, an employee at a restaurant in Adabar, and rickshaw-puller Abul Hossain, said Lt Col SM Azad, commanding officer of Rab 2 while addressing a press briefing at Rab-2 office in capital’s Agargaon yesterday.
“Nesar was one of my co-workers at the restaurant. He took my child from my lap on January 3 in the evening and went out for a walk outside the restaurant. He did not get back until it was 11:30pm and then he made a phone call demanding Tk1.5lakh as ransom,” said Rumana.
“Nesar threatened that if we did not pay the money, we would see dead body of our child lying in front of our house,” added Rumana.
A day after the incident, Abul Hossain filed a general diary with Adabar police station and informed the matter to Rab-2 personnel.
“Being informed by the parents, we started searching. With technological support, we were able to detect the location of the abductor and detained him from his village. He confessed
that he had left the child at a house in the capital’s Dakkhin Peererbagh area in Mirpur. The Rab men returned Dhaka with him and rescued the child around 3:00pm,” said the commanding officer.
He said Nesar had left the child to one of his friends who fled away from the house sensing danger.
“The friend of the abductor left the house leaving the infant inside it on January 6. Hearing crying of the baby the locals rescued it and since then they had been taking care of it,” said the Rab official.
