Ex-UP chairman arrested for ‘abducting 12-yr-old girl’

Police on Friday arrested a former chairman of Kailati union parishad, suspecting him of being involved in the kidnapping of a 12-year-old girl.

Sohrab Hossain, son of Abdul Jabbar and resident of Darunbali village in Sadar upazila, was arrested from Teribazarmor in the morning.

Quoting the case statement, officer-in-charge of Netrakona model police station Borhan Uddin said, Sohrab picked up Sumaiya Akhter, 12, on 18 February from the street from Satberikanda area.

A local saw Sohrab taking away the girl on his motorcycle and informed her father. Sumaiya's family went to the ex-UP chairman's house but could not find him.

When they called Sohrab over phone, he told them that he knew nothing about the girl.

Sumaiya's family filed a case with Netrakona model police station on Thursday evening.

Police said they were trying to rescue the girl within the shortest possible time.