
Asif Mahmud, one of the co-coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform demanding quota reform in government jobs, reappeared on Wednesday morning about six days after he had gone missing.
Asif himself alleged that he was picked up by 6–7 people in a microbus from Mohanagar residential area at about 11:00pm on Friday while walking on the road.
‘They threw me on a road in Mohakhali area from a car between 11:00am to 12 noon today. I have called friend Riham to rescue me. I was given injections three times for making me unconscious,’ Asif told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·.
He said that they forced him to give a video message but he refused.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch deputy commissioner of Tejgaon Division Md Robiul Islam declined to make any comment as he was about to take the charge. Â
Billal Hossain, father of Asif Mahmud, claimed at a press conference that his son Asif was missing since July 18.
One of the key coordinators of the protest, Nahid Islam, who was allegedly picked up by detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan
Police in the early hours of Saturday from the capital’s Khilgaon area, found himself abandoned at Purbachal some 26 hours later.