Aniruddha Kumar Roy, a businessman who was abducted on August 27 from Gulshan in Dhaka, returned home on November 18. The abductors had kept Aniruddha in a closed room for 81 days. There was an attached bathroom, but no window.

"The abductors acted very professionally. They gave me food at regular intervals. The door was locked from the outside," he said.

Utpal Das, an abducted journalist, was also found "safe" on Tuesday night, He returned home yesterday after more than two months. His tale of woe resembles that of Aniruddha's. Both were abducted by a group of hardcore professionals who knew what they were doing and had planned everything in advance.

"I was abducted from in front of Dhanmondi star kabab at noon. I couldn't see my abductors. I was kept in a tin-roofed room. The abductors served me food on a plate pushed in from the bottom of the door to the room. There was an attached bathroom. No one hurt me. My mobile phone was taken from me," said Utpal.

Utpal was found in Rupganj in Narayanganj on Tuesday night after being missing for more than two months. Recently, 13 people, including university teacher Mobhabar Hasan, book publisher Tanvir Yasin Karim, journalist Utpal Das, Kalyan Party secretary general Aminur Rahman, IFIC Bank official Shamim Ahmed, and businessman Aniruddha Roy, were abducted from Dhaka. Among them,  Shamim Ahmed, Aniruddha Roy and Utpal Das have come back.

Nur Khan (Liton), a former director of Ain-o-Salish Kendra (ASK), said those who have come back cannot recount anything because of their traumatic experience. “These things will continue unless social degradation and dirty politics come to an end,” he added.

Meanwhile, the government and law enforcement agencies have given statements about the abducted people.

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that law enforcement agencies are very active to find the whereabouts of those who have been abducted.  He, however, said that people often hide themselves to avoid arrest or to blame the government.

According to the website of the National Human Rights Commission, 52 people were reported missing in the first six months of this year.

According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and domestic human rights organisations, 395 people have gone missing from different places in the country in the last eight years and nine months from January 2009 to September this year. As many as 52 of them have been found dead, while 195 have come back.

However, 148 people have still remained missing. Leading constitutional expert Swadhin Malik told the Independent that abducting people for ransom has become a trend all around theglobe. “Something is wrong with our law enforcers and that’s why we never know the fate of the missing persons,” he said.