Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested three people from Dhaka’s Farmgate and Mohakhali areas in connection with torturing popular transgender beauty vlogger Saad.
RAB Headquarters Assistant Director (Media) ASP Imran Khan said that three people including Ishtiaq Amin Fuad were arrested during a drive that started on Saturday night and ended on Sunday morning.
On Friday, transgender beauty vlogger Saad claimed that she was held captive and tortured by a man and a woman she met at a restaurant in the city's Bashundhara residential area four days ago.
In her police complaint, Saad claimed that the man and the woman later invited her to their house for lunch. When she went to their house, the accused allegedly held her captive, snatched her bag and cell phone, and also tortured her.
Based on her complaint, a case was filed at Vatara police station against the accused on Friday.
Vatara police station Officer-in-Charge Sajedur Rahman said legal actions would be taken against the accused if the allegations turned out to be true.
On Friday night, Saad posted the photos of the two accused on her Facebook wall and narrated her ordeal on the social media platform.
On Facebook, she identified the woman as Saima Sikder Nira, a student of Daffodil International University, and the man as Ishtiaq Fuad, a former Air Force official and a student of North South University.
Saad also wrote that the two were in touch with another man named Rafat Bin Nur on walkie-talkie and "their intention was to sell me."
"I later came to know that Rafat is an Army man and is currently out of the country on a mission."
Saad makes various videos on beauty care, including makeup tutorials.
