Police in a drive arrested three members of a child kidnapping gang including its ringleader from Salna in Gazipur on Friday.
The arrestees are its ringleader Milton Masud, 45, Shahinur Rahman, 38, and Sifia Begum, 48.
Mohammad Morshed Alam, deputy police commissioner of Uttara zone, said a general diary was lodged on March 24 with Uttara East police station over the missing of 6-year-old Shaheen Sheikh.
With the help of technology, a team of Uttara East police, conducted a drive in Salna area and arrested the trio.
After interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they have long been involved in kidnapping children from different schools, bazars, and restaurants and realize ransom through mobile financing apps like bKash and Nagad.
Milton was wanted in five cases while Shahinur was wanted in three cases filed with Dhaka and Gazipur police stations.
Police also seized two mobile phone sets and five SIM cards from their possession.
