Police rescue kidnapped RU student, arrest 5

Police rescued a kidnapped student of Rajshahi University (and arrested five people for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping him in Rajshahi.

The arrested were identified as Paban Sarker Udoy, 19, son of Indrajit Sarker, Daud Ibrahim, 22, son of late Saidul Islam, Polash Kabir, 26, son of late Jamal Sheikh, Prabin Paul, 20, son of Harendranath Paul, and Wahidur Rahman, 20, son of Shamsur Rahman. All of them are the residents in the city.

Rafiqul Alam, additional deputy commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police, told BSS that the arrested persons kidnapped Ratul Kumar Barman from Rajshahi Court Station area around 7 pm on Friday.

A fourth-year student at the Department of Fine Arts of RU, Ratul is the son of late Asim Kumar Barman of Chandlai in Godagari of Rajshahi.

Subsequently, they demanded Tk 40,000 as ransom from his guardians, identifying them as police.

A case was lodged with Kasiadanga Police Station in this connection.

On a tip-off, a team of the police rescued the boys after conducting a sudden raid in the house of Daud

Ibrahim in Haragram area around 10:30pm.