DMP quizzes Farhad Mazhar, Farida

Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday interrogated poet, writer and researcher Farhad Mazhar and his activist wife Farida Akhter over his alleged abduction on July 3.
During the one-hour interrogation in Detective Branch office on Minto Road, the interrogators told Farhad Md Mazharul Huq, who is popularly known as Farhad Mazhar, and Farida that the investigators found that evidences did not match Farhad’s statement recorded by a metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on July 4 under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure.
The DB’s joint commissioner Abdul Baten along with his team had interrogated the couple. 
Baten said he had interrogated them but declined commenting further on why they were quizzed. 
Farida said Baten told Farhad that the statement he had given was not similar to the judicial statement and displayed CCTV footages in Khulna and described how Farhad bought his return ticket for Dhaka from Khulna. 
‘In reply’, Farida said, ‘Farhad was strict in his statement. Farhad says he had not much information other than those given in the [Section] 164 [the judicial statement]. And he urged investigator to conduct impartial investigation.’
On July 13, in the midst of the investigation, inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque had said Farhad was not abducted, rather he staged the incident to embarrass the government.
The IGP, however, had then could not say how Farhad had reached Khulna and what the mode of transportation he used.
Shahidul displayed different CCTV footages highlighting Farhad Mazhar at New Market and its adjacent area in Khulna city between 4:41pm and 7:27pm. 
The DB was assigned to investigate the abduction of Farhad Mazhar, also a rights activist, who was allegedly abducted from Dhaka in the morning on July 3 and found on a Dhaka-bound bus in Jessore after 18 hours.
A metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on July 4 recorded his statement and later the police recorded statements of two other people in connection with the case filed by his wife Farida Akhter with Adabor Police Station. 
On Tuesday, Farida said the investigators told them that they would face charges if the allegation they had made with the police and in the judicial statement were not finally proved.
Farida said she had replied to the interrogators saying the IGP already had said on July 13 that Farhad would face music if the elderly person tried to challenge the police findings, and the Khulna range deputy inspector general Didar Ahmed claimed Farhad was on a leisure trip on July 3.
Although police could not find him on the way to Khulna, he was found inside a Dhaka-bound bus in Jessore from Khulna after 10:00pm on July 3.

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