Family seeks PM’s intervention in film-maker going missing

The family said on Monday that film-maker Syed Iftekhar Alam Sourav was called by Rapid Action Battalion members to meet them with his passport, curriculum vitae and other documents for a job and went missing after going to meet them in front of a Chattogram market on June 9.
Syed Iftekhar’s parents and maternal uncle former statement minister for home Tanzim Ahmed Sohel Taj at the press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity sought prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to find out the missing film-maker filmmaker.
Syed Ifterkhar was an associate producer of Bengali Beauty, a Bangladeshi romantic period comedy film written and directed by Rahsaan Noor.
His mother Syeda Yasmin Arjuman, in her written statement, said that the ‘missing’ of her son was connected to an affair with a pious lady in Dhaka and the affair stared two years ago. 
The pious lady was a daughter of businessman, who according to Yasmin, was blaming Iftekhar for the separation between the lady and her husband in 2018. 
According to the media reports, the businessman denied the allegation and claimed that his name was being intentionally smeared to demean his social status.
Yasmin said her son was picked up and interrogated by two intelligence agencies and the battalion on separate occasions since February 7. 
Syed Iftekhar was lured by the battalion to meet them in front of Mimi Supermarket in the port city at about 7:00pm on June 9 for a job, she said.
‘He went to meet them but since then his phone was switched off. We have approached law enforcement agencies but his whereabouts is not known as yet,’ said the mother.
Sohel Taj said, ‘We gather here not to malign someone rather to get back my relative safe and sound.’
Asked whether state power was used for personal purpose, Sohel said, ‘The spirit of the Liberation War was democracy and the aim of the democracy was to ensure justice for all. I draw attention of the prime minister to inquire whether anyone used state power extra judicially.’
Earlier, in a Facebook post Friday night, Sohel stated that his cousin’s son was ‘abducted’ from Chittagong Medical College Hospital area on June 9 and requested those who kidnapped Iftekhar to return him to the family. 
‘Otherwise, your identity will be made public. We know who are behind it,’ read the post.
Syed Iftekhar was a dropout student of media and communication at Independent University Bangladesh and later turned into a film producer.
His father Idris Alam filed a missing complaint with Panchlaish police station on June 10.
Panchlaish police station officer-in-charge Abul Kashem Bhuiyan said that they were investigating the complaint.
RAB spokesperson deputy director Major Husain Raisul Azam Moni declined to comment.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net