HC for rescuing abducted doctor
STAFF REPORTER
The High Court (HC) yesterday directed the government to submit a report before it within 10 days on what steps it has been taken to rescue Dr Iqbal Mahmud, a government physician, was reportedly abducted on October 14.
It also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned to explain why the inactivity of the law enforcement agencies to rescue the doctor should not be declared negligence in discharging duties.
In response to a writ petition, the HC bench comprising Justice Tariq-Ul Hakim and Justice Mohammad Faruque came up with the order and rule.
AKM Nurul Alam, father of Dr Iqbal, filed the petition with the HC on November 15 seeking necessary orders from the HC to find out his son.
Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud was working at the Laxmipur sadar hospital after passing the 28th BCS examinations. He was then transferred to Comilla Medical College. On October 10, he came to Dhaka for two months training at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). His wife is also a physician.
She and her children live with her in-laws in Laxmipur. Iqbal Mahmud had returned to Dhaka that night after spending a holiday with them.
In a CCTV footage obtained by Bangla daily Prothom Alo shows a medical officer of the health directorate, Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, alighted from the bus and was immediately picked up by seven or eight persons who whisked him away in a microbus at Science Laboratory intersection.
A police van was seen following the microbus. There has been no news of this doctor since then.
