Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Students Movement against Discrimination, a platform for the quota reform system in government services, was traced early Sunday, day after he went missing.
Nahid told 抖阴精品 that he found himself in Purbachal area of Dhaka between 4:00am and 5:00am.
He said that some 50-60 people, identified themselves as detective branch members in plain clothes, picked him up from his friend鈥檚 house in Khilgaon鈥檚 Nandipara area.
They blindfolded him and forcefully picked up in a vehicle. After about half an hour, they took him to a room, where he was interrogated, Nahid continued.
鈥楾hey tortured me mentally and physically, leaving me senseless,鈥� he said, adding, 鈥業 am currently undergoing treatment at a hospital鈥�.聽
On Saturday evening, Nahid鈥檚 parents reported his disappearance and went to the DB office, where the officials said that they did not detain anyone named Nahid.
The DB deputy commissioner Shahen Shah Mahmud on Saturday said that none from the DB arrested Nahid and they were working to trace his whereabouts.
Nahid is one of the coordinators of the protests that began on July 1, following a High Court order on June 5, asking the government to restore 30 per cent quotas for the descendants of freedom fighters in civil services.
At least 149 people, including journalists, students and children, were killed as of 10:00pm Sunday during the protest across the country since July 16.
The Appellate Division on Sunday asked the government to recruit 93 per cent job seekers on the basis of merits and appoint remaining 7 per cent maintaining 5 per cent quota for the children of freedom fighters, one per cent each for the ethnic minority, and the people with disabilities, and third genders.
Two coordinators of the protest, Abdullah Salehin Ayon and Umama Fatema in a statement said that they welcomed the Supreme Court verdict, but they wanted final solution of the quota issue in public services through the executive department of the state.
They also said that the movement to be continued until their demands were addressed.
Their demands included justice for the killings and ensuring proper treatment for the injured in clashes.
