List of missing people turns lengthy

Syed Shemul Parvez :
The list of missing people is becoming lengthy day by day. Those who come back never say anything about the missing.
According to sources, those people who went missing in last three months were mainly the Islamic preachers, speakers as well as students of different madrasas of the country who generally are in religious activities.
Victim families, however, claim that some unidentified persons identified themselves as DB persons and forcibly picked up their family members.
The family of Islamic speaker Mahmudul Hasan Gunabi claimed that Mahmudul had gone missing as a group of plainclothes men picked him from Noakhali on July 6.
Mahmudul’s wife Saraban Tahura said that Mahmudul went to meet his acquaintance Yusuf at Karmullah union of Noakhali on July 6.
A group of plainclothes men identifying themselves as members of law enforcement agencies picked him up there, she claimed.
After missing, victim wife approached to the local police station, but his whereabouts could not be known so far, she said.
In this case, Inspector of Noakhali Detective Branch of Police Saiful Islam told the New Nation that they had heard about the incident, but none said that Mahmudul Hasan Gunabi was arrested by them.
Mahmudul, an Islamic preacher, is son of late Abdul Kadir from Gohnabati village in Chowddagram of Cumilla.
It is learned that missing Mahmudul is a much known face in the Islamic circle of social media.
In Narayanganj, three young men went missing after a group of people introducing themselves as the members of police force picked them up from Araihazar of the district on June 2 about 42 days ago.
The missing men have been identified as Shahidul Islam, an imam of a local mosque, Mohammad Noman, a businessman, and Mohammad Nasim, a madrasa student.
Later victim’s family members told it the media in a press briefing at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) in the capital last month.
In the briefing, Sarwar Hossain, father of the victim Noman, said that Noman had a garments business at Banti Bazar in Araihazar. On June 2, Noman left their house to go to the shop in the morning.
The father said that his son reached the bazaar at about 11:00 am. At that time, seven to eight people introducing themselves as DB police picked him up and put him into the microbus. Nasim and Shahidul were also taken at that time.
Later, the family members of the victims visited to the Araihazar Police Station and office of the district police super, but the police denied any such arrest, he said.
They went to the DB office and other offices of the law enforcers, but none admitted nabbing the trio, victim’s fathers added.
Anisur Rahman Molla, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Araihazar Police Station told the New Nation that they didn’t arrest such people by these names.
Besides, a master degree student of Chemistry Department of Jahangirnagar University went missing from Mirpur in Dhaka on June 24 evening after going out of his mess for Maghrib prayers.
The victim student has been identified as Zahid Hasan Razu. A general diary was filed with Pallabi Police Station after three days of his disappearance.
Later, Jahangirnagar University students organized a human chain on the campus on Friday demanding the safe return of their disappeared fellow Zahid Hasan Raju, 26.
Earlier, eminent Islamic speaker Abu Twa -ha Muhammad Adnan (31) along with his three friends went missing while coming back to Dhaka. But the fact is that after a certain days of missing they all returned home and didn’t say anything.