Environmental lawyer Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique was confined to a high-rise in an undisclosed place after his abduction.
Published : 18 Apr 2014, 12:39 PM
He was blindfolded and kept locked in a room in the house most of the time.
His captors took the blindfold off only when he was to answer the call of nature, Fatulla Police Station OC Akhter Hossain told bdnews24.com quoting Siddique.
Siddique is a senior manager with a garments factory owned by State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu.
He was returning to Dhaka from the factory in Fatulla when he was whisked away by armed assailants from Narayanganj’s Bhuigarh on Wednesday.
His abductors ‘dumped’ him at Dhaka’s Mirpur nearly 35 hours after the abduction.
He identified himself as AB Siddique while police were running a security check on an autorickshaw at Kalabagan in the early hours of Friday.
His family members, and top police officials rushed to the Dhanmondi Police Station on hearing the news.
Narrating Siddique’s ordeal as was told to him, OC Hossain said the abductors took him to a multi-storey building after a three-hour drive.
There, he was kept blindfolded and confined to a room.
“His captors gave him Tk 300 before setting him free in Mirpur at around 11:30pm on Thursday,” the police officer said.
Meanwhile, the autorickshaw driver, who drove Siddiqui to Kalabagan, was taken to Fatulla Police Station on Friday morning.
Driver Hafizul Islam said a man waved him down at Kaziparha in Mirpur around 1am and requested to take Siddiqui to Dhanmondi’s Central Road.
“The man identified himself as AB Siddique as we reached Kalabagan police checkpost,” he said.