Detectives are looking for two brothers who were allegedly picked up from their Mirpur home by men who identified themselves as Detective Branch personnel.
Omar Faruk, 38, and Md Firoz Sardar, 35, used to run a book shop ‘Nabajatra’ at Nilkhet. Their father Hakim Ali Sardar filed a general diary (GD) with Darussalam Police after they were taken on Thursday.
DB officials say they have detained no one by those names and their day-long search for the brothers on Sunday has not revealed any trace.
Police, too, have been searching for the brothers from Mirpur’s Goaltekh. “We have found no traces of them,” said Darussalam Police OC Md Rafikul Islam. “We’re trying to find out if this was kidnap.”
They used to live in the rented four-room house at Goaltekh with their parents, wives and maternal cousins.
Two men had jumped the wall to enter their house around 2am Thursday, said their 70-year old father Hakim Sardar. “They kept banging on Firoz’s door and kept saying ‘come out quick, the house is on fire’.”
As soon as Firoz came out, the men with firearms and wearing vests marked ‘DB’ wanted to know his name and then asked where his brother Faruk was, said Sardar.
“Sensing things were not alright. Firoz said Faruk was not at home. One of them then slapped him and said ‘you two have come home together. Why are you saying now he’s not home?’,” he said.
The men then escorted Faruk out from their home’s premises and Faruk came out then hearing a hullabaloo. One of the men then said ‘There’s Faruk, the one with the beard’ and whisked the brothers away, according to the father.
“I asked them ‘what have my sons done?’ and one of them replied ‘You will get to know later’,” he added.
The men refused to identify themselves when asked, but they had firearms and vests similar to what the DB personnel wear.
The brothers’ cousin ‘Jalil’, who lives in a house in the same compound, said he along with his elder brother ‘Kader’ was at home that night.
“The DB men came to our house also. They asked our names and then left,” he told bdnews24.com.
Jalil said the brothers ran a bookshop at Nilkhet. They used to go for work in the morning and return in the night.
“There were two night guards in front of the home that day. A tea-stall nearby was also open. The DB men told the guards to be quiet and asked the tea-stall owner to close his shop in two minutes and leave,” he said.
Failing to trace his sons, Sardar went to the DB headquarters at the capital’s Minto Road on Sunday, but it did not yield anything.
“The people at DB office said they do not know anything about the matter,” Sardar told bdnews24.com.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman said that the DB police had not detained anyone by those names.
“Police are looking into the matter,” he said while speaking to bdnews24.com.
Source: Bd news24
