Madrasa teacher held for kidnapping student in Dhaka: Rab

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today claimed to have arrested a madrasa teacher from Dhaka’s Airport Railway Station in connection with a kidnapping case.

A team of Rab-3 rescued the student from his captivity in the area, said ASM Shakhawat Hossain Rabiul Islam, Senior Assistant Director of Rab-3.

The arrestee, Mainul Islam, 24, a teacher of a madrasa in Noakhali’s Sonapur area kidnapped Sameer, 8, one of his former students, in Dhaka, the Rab official said.

Mainul had come to Dhaka on Thursday afternoon and kidnapped the boy from a field before the boy's house at Modhubag of Hatorjheel.

The kidnapper left a ransom note for Tk 50 thousand inside the microbus that the boy's father Kawsar Ahmed drives for livelihood, Rab said.

The arrestee also informed Kawsar about the ransom money over SMS and phone call.

Kawsar sought help from Rab. The elite force members later lured the kidnapper of giving the ransom money at the Airport Railway Station through Kawsar and arrested him.

Mainul, who developed close connection with Samir’s family while giving him lession before going to Noakhali for job.

He kept the boy at a house in Dhaka.

Source: thedailystar