Farhad Mazhar's statement does not match with police findings: Asaduzzaman

Farhad Mazhar's statement, recorded by a magistrate, does not match with police findings, says the Dhaka metro police chief.

Farhad Mazhar mysteriously disappeared from his Dhaka home on Monday before being found on a bus in Jessore hours later. Farhad Mazhar mysteriously disappeared from his Dhaka home on Monday before being found on a bus in Jessore hours later.

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DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said on Wednesday that they were now sifting through a trove of evidence collected during the investigations.

 

"We have collected video footage, CCTV footage, call records, material evidence and spoke with witnesses. None of this matches with his statement," he said while speaking at a programme at the DMP headquarters.

 

Known as a rightist activist and staunch critic of government, Mazhar was found on a bus in Jessore while travelling from Khulna to Dhaka, 18 hours after he went missing from the capital on the morning of Jun 3.

 

His family alleged in a police complaint, which was later recorded as a case, that he was abducted after leaving home early that morning.

 

Police tracked his mobile and conducted a search operation in the southwest region of the country in the evening. The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB said he was found on the bus in Jessore later in the night.

 

He was brought back to Dhaka the next morning and questioned at the Detective Branch offices before being produced in court.

 

The court allowed him to return home after his statement was recorded in a magistrate's chamber.

 

Detectives said Mazhar told them that some people had picked him up on a microbus when he went out to buy medicine.