Missing Mancha activist Kanak rescued after 3 days

Police rescued Azizul Hayat Khan Kanak, a first-year student of the Department of Finance at Dhaka University, from Kawran Bazaar in the city on Thursday, three days after he went missing.

Kanak, an active member of the DU unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra Union, was missing since Tuesday.

A residential student of Ziaur Rahman Hall, Kanak actively took part in the movement of the youths-led Ganajagaran Mancha which has long been demanding death penalty for all war criminals.

He has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) after being rescued.

He told his classmates that the abductors tortured him and left him at Panthakunja in Kawran Bazaar in the early hours of Thursday.

Police said that Kanak was rescued in front of a grocery shop at Kawran Bazaar.

DU unit Chhatra Union General Secretary Tuhin Kanti Das told bdnews24.com that after Kanak was set free by the abductors at Panthakunja, he telephoned his relatives from a nearby shop.

After being informed, police rescued him from there.

DMCH Police Outpost Sub-Inspector Bazlur Rahman told bdnews24.com that the police and Kanak’s relatives took him to the hospital.

Kanak had contacted Tuhin Kanti Das around 7pm on Tuesday and told him that he was in trouble. Since then he was missing.

After the university authority was informed of the matter, Ziaur Rahman Hall Provost Prof ABM Faruk filed a general diary with the Shahbagh Police Station on Wednesday.

Quoting Kanak, Tuhin said that Kanak fell unconscious after he was doped. After he regained consciousness, he found himself confined in a house where he was tortured severely.

But it was not yet clear who abducted Kanak and what their motives were.

Kanak hails from Bakerganj Upazila in Barisal district. His elder sister lives with her husband at Lalbagh in Dhaka. Both his sister and brother-in-law are former Chhatra Union leaders.