Missing for four months, BNP leader, businessman Sadat Ahmed arrested

Police have arrested Syed Sadat Ahmed, a BNP leader and businessman who went missing over four months ago, in Dhaka.

Police’s Detective Branch Additional Deputy Commissioner Md Yusuf Ali told bdnews24.com that they arrested Sadat in Rampura around 9:30pm on Saturday.

The charges against him included an arson attack on a car, the police officer said.

DB Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten said Sadat was in their custody.

Police would produce him in a court in a case over violence on Sunday, he added.

Another police officer, requesting anonymity, said they would seek to remand Sadat in their custody.

ABN Group Managing Director Sadat was abducted from Banani on Aug 22 in Dhaka, his family had alleged and informed police about the matter.

Sadat is a vice-president of the BNP’s Chittagong South unit.

He had been a member of the party’s Central Executive Committee.

Five days after he went missing, the family of Kalyan Party Secretary General MM Aminur Rahman said Aminur was abducted by unknown people.

Police found Aminur in Dhaka’s Shahjadpur on Dec 23 and remanded him the same day in a case over a bomb attack on a procession of pro-Awami League workers. 

When Sadat went missing, his father retired colonel Syed Sahabuddin Ahmed told bdnews24.com Sadat had been forced out of his car and taken into a microbus under the Banani overpass.

Sadat was driving the car with his son Mehedi Zaman and a caretaker in it, his father said.

One of his abductors then started driving Sadat's car while Mehedi and his caretaker were still inside. Following the microbus, he took the vehicle across the 300-feet road and ended up in Purbachal.

The man disembarked from Sadat's car at Purbachal and told Mehedi that his father will be returned in 15 minutes, and took away his cell phone.

The microbus with Sadat was then driven towards Narayanganj, said Shahabuddin, quoting his grandson Mehedi.