Unidentified miscreants set a 19-year-old college girl free at Uttara Sector 4 in the capital in the early hours of yesterday, about one hour after her abduction from the area.
The miscreants also shot dead a security guard and injured one of the friends of the girl as they came to her rescue.
Police rescued the girl one hour after the incident and arrested four persons for their alleged involvement with the abduction of the girl and killing of the security guard, Sahed Ferdous Rana, assistant commissioner of police of Uttara division, told the Dhaka Tribune.
He, however, refused to disclose the identity of the arrestees, saying that the investigation was underway.
Police sources said the detainees include alleged mastermind Rummon, his father, a brother and one of his associates.
According to police and locals, Fatema Akhter, intermediate student of Cambrian School and College, along with her mother Nurun Nahar Saiful and friend Mahfuzul Haque was returning home on foot. When they reached near Helvetia fast food shop at Uttara Sector-4 about 11:15pm, a group of unidentified people picked Fatema in a white private car.
At that time, Mahfuzul, also the fiancé of Fatema, tried to resist the abductors, but they stabbed him badly. Hearing the screams, security guard Liakat Hossain Liton, 38, came to her rescue, but abductors shot him in the abdomen and left the spot, Mohammad Saifuddin, investigation officer of the case and sub-inspector of Uttara east police station, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Liton was admitted to Al-Ashraf Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where the doctors declared him dead around 1.30am, he said, adding that injured Mahfuzul, son of Fazlul Haque, was undergoing treatment at Central Hospital at Uttara.
Fazlul Haque, father of Mahfuzul, refused to make any comment on the issue and said they had no relation with the Fatema family.
Police took the girl to one stop crisis centre at DMCH for check-up as abductors confined her for an hour. Lubna Akther, assistant commissioner of Uttara division, told the Dhaka Tribune that they admitted the girl for medical check-up and collected samples to check whether the abductors caused any harm to her.
Nurun Nahar, mother of the victim, told the Dhaka Tribune that two of her daughter’s college teachers Biplob and Adri often used to tease her daughter and used to make love proposal. “My daughter has told me that she was rejecting the proposal. I think they might have involvement in the incident.”
Nurun Nahar, wife of Saiful Islam Mollah, a resident of Gazipur, filed a case with the Uttara east police station in this regard.
Nisharul Arif, deputy commissioner of police of Uttara division, told the Dhaka Tribune that soon after the incident, police started their drive and rescued the girl within one hour after the abduction.
Police also detained several persons for interrogation, he said, adding that they were trying to hunt down the mastermind.
