Police rescued abducted fish trader Abdul Hannan, 32, of Rampura in Dhaka from Begun Narchi village under Ghior upazila yesterday and arrested five people in this connection.
Hannan was kidnapped from from Rampura wholesale fish market on July 13.
The arrestees are Habib, 26, Matin, 22, Liton,22, Arobindo, 22 and Badal, 24 of Bharra village under Nagarpur upazila in Tangail.
Officer-in-charge of Ghior police station Azizur Rahman said the kidnapers took Abdul Hannan to the home of Habib of Bharra village under Nagarpur upazila in Tangail.
Confining him to a house, they demanded ransom Tk15 lakh from the victim's wife Shima Begum over cell phone.
The criminals also had threatened over phone that they will kill her husband if their demand is not met.
Hannan's family sent Tk 3 lakh to an address given by the kidnappers through S A Paribahan. But they stuck to their full demand of Tk15lakh.
Abdul Hannan was later moved to the house of Mohor Ali of Begun Narchi village in Manikganj from Tangail on July 15. Getting a scope, Hannan called his wife over cell phone. He told her that the kidnapers confined him to a house beside a school on the bank of a river of Ghior.
Hannan's family informed it to Ghior police station and police raided the Begun Narchi areas. The kidnapers fled into a jute field with Hannan.
Police however held the four abductors and rescued the fish trader.
Source : The Daily Star
