No clue over abductions as another missing returns
Kalyan Party leader found after 4 months, placed on 4-day remand
Saugato Bosu
Despite the mysteries over the incidents of disappearances getting no clearer, another missing person, the third in this week, was found yesterday. This time, Kalyan Party Secretary General MM Aminur Rahman was found in Shahjadpur area of the capital, about four months after his disappearance. The leader of the BNP-led 20 party alliance went missing on Aug 27 while travelling from his house in Dhakas Naya Paltan to a place in Savar.
Earlier, journalist Utpal Das and NSU teacher Mubashar Hasan were found on December 19 and 21 respectively. Since August 22, at least 12 people have gone missing from Dhaka alone. Five of them have returned so far. On Friday, Mubashar Hasan, a teacher at the North South University, returned home after 44 days of disappearance. He was kidnapped from Agargaon on November 7, he had claimed. On December 22, he was released on the road near the airport.
Two days before that, on December 19, journalist Utpal Das, a senior correspondent of purbapaschimbd.new online portal, was found in Narayanganj. He went missing from Dhanmondi on October 10 and claimed that he was abducted by unidentified men.
Businessman Aniruddha Roy, who was abducted from Gulshan on August 27, was found on November 17. The fate of the other missing persons, including former ambassador Maroof Zaman, is not yet clear.
A Detective Branch team found Sheikh Nazmul Alam, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of police. Later Aminur Rahman was produced before the chief metropolitan magistrates court with a prayer for a 10-day remand. But the court granted four days of police remand, according to sub-inspector Rakibul Islam of Gulshan police station.
The reason behind Aminurs disappearance is still not known. His family had filed a general diary in Paltan police station after he went missing on August 27. Since then, there was no news of him. His mobile phones were switched off. Police, however, said they tracked his mobile phone and located him in Pragati Sarani, Shahjadpur, Dhaka, on Friday night.
After Aminurs disappearance, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir had blamed the government. We suspect that Aminur faced the same fate as the others victims, he had stated.
Some family members of those, who have returned after their mysterious disappearance, said they will file no complaint against anyone. We ask no questions about who abducted my brother and for what purpose. We are simply happy that he is back home, said Mubashars sister Tamanna Tasmin on Friday.
Utpals father told the media the same thing. We just want to forget the nightmare, he said. While such mysterious incidents of disappearance and return of people, reportedly carried out by organised groups, cast serious doubts over the law enforcers ability to protect to the general public from such abductions, no serious reaction has so far been noted from the authorities concerned.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters on Friday that they will question those who have returned (from disappearance) to try to learn more about the motive behind their abduction. Investigation will continue to find out those who are still missing, he said. I would say the missing people have returned because the law enforcers were active, the minister claimed.
