The Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested four individuals in connection with abduction of a garment factory official and his driver, who were taken hostage for ransom by perpetrators posing as representatives of the Student Against Discrimination.
At a press conference on Friday at the media centre of Dampara Police Lines, Hussain Mohammad Kabir Bhuiyan, deputy commissioner of the Chattogram Metropolitan Police, disclosed the details.
The arrests were made on Thursday following raids in the Kattoli and CDA Residential areas under Akbar Shah Police Station in the city.
The four detained are Nazmul Abedin, 22, Naimul Amin Emon, 22, Arafat Hossain Fahim, 22, and Rishti Bin Yusuf, 23.
CMP deputy commissioner聽 said that the incident took place at around 8:30pm on Thursday when the suspects abducted Abdul Al Mamun and his personal driver Jewel from Mamun鈥檚 residence in the CDA Residential Area under Akbar Shah Police Station.
Mamun serves as an assistant general manager at Commercial Export Pacific Jeans, a garment factory in the Chattogram Export Processing Zone.
The officer said that the kidnappers, claiming to be representatives of the Students Against Discrimination, contacted Mamun鈥檚 wife and extorted Tk 5 lakh in cash along with Tk 15 lakh through bank cheques.
After securing the ransom, they released Mamun and his driver near Apollo Imperial Hospital in Khulshi.
On information, police later rescued them, the police officer said.
鈥楩ollowing their rescue, joint operations were conducted by the CMP鈥檚 Pahartali Zone and Detective Branch and we tracked down and arrested the four people at their respective residences,鈥� said DC Kabir Bhuiyan.
He also said, 鈥楧uring interrogation, we recovered the ransom money from Naimul Amin Emon鈥檚 residence. Additionally, we identified four more suspects Opi, Alauddin, Arafat, and Asif. Efforts are underway to apprehend them.鈥�
Akbar Shah police station officer-in-charge Md Kamruzzaman said that on information, police rescued Mamun and his driver from the road near an eye hospital.
