FARHAD MAZHAR ABDUCTION Detectives launch investigation, not clear about motive

 

Detective police on Wednesday formally launched investigation into the abduction of poet, writer and researcher Farhad Mazhar, found on a Dhaka-bound bus in Jessore 18 hours after his reported abduction from Dhaka Monday morning.
Detective officials said that they were examining Farhad’s statement recorded by a metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on Tuesday and trying to capture the abductors.
‘We are considering the judicial statement as a baseline for our investigation and collecting corroborative evidences,’ said additional deputy commissioner (detective, west) Golam Mustafa Russell.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police said Wednesday morning that the case filed by Farhad’s wife Farida Akhter with Adabar police station Monday night was transferred to the Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division Tuesday night for investigation.
The investigators were looking for answers to many questions relating to the abduction, which triggered outcries in home and abroad, and said that the motive would be surfaced once they could get the answers.
They believed that the abduction had no relations to ransom.
According to them, Farhad also told them that he ‘technically’ offered the abductors money and started bargaining over the ransom. 
They said that they did not have detail information about what happened to Farhad after he reached Khulna and they were not looking for the ‘Noah’ microbus used in the abduction.
A Rapid Action Department official said that a CCTV footage of a building at Adabar that showed Farhad being taken in the microbus.
Rapid Action Battalion-6 commanding officer Khandaker Rafikul Islam said that they had searched a microbus in Khulna but found it different from the one seen in the footage. 
Farhad was admitted to BIRDEM hospital after a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate’s court released him in his own custody on Tuesday. 
His family said that he was suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiac problem and he would make no statement until his release from the hospital. 
Attending physicians at BIRDEM said that he was improving.
The family barred journalists from meeting Farhad saying that he was traumatised by the incidents.
A number of friends and followers, however, met him at the hospital.
One of the visitors told New Age that Farhad told them that he was not carrying any bag along with him which police investigators claimed they had found in his possession during his rescue from the bus. 
Police officials claimed that in his side bag they found a black Panjabi, a vest and mobile phone charger and Tk 12,500. 
The security guard of his apartment said they saw Farhad leaving the building without any bag. 
A follower of Farhad said he never saw him wearing black Panjabi.
Grill House manager Rezaul Kabir said Farhad took dinner at his restaurant in Khulna between 8:20pm and 9:00pm on Monday and ‘He was not carrying anything with him at that time.’
A university professor who met Farhad at the hospital on Wednesday said that the victim was unwilling to recall the incidents.
The visitors said that Farhad told them ‘none of the people had returned in recent time [after being victim of enforced disappearance] had spoken out.’
Farhad told police interrogators that he went out of his house at Adabar in the morning to buy medicine for his eyes. 
At least three people took him into a microbus, blindfolded him, and kept him unfed until he was dropped, police interrogators said quoting Farhad.
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told reporters in Gazipur on Wednesday that a quick investigation would reveal the facts.

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