Farhad Mazhar free to go home
Poet, writer and political analyst Farhad Mazhar has been permitted to return home.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Ahsan Habib on Tuesday recorded his deposition and permitted him to return him on his own, with a Tk 10,000 undertaking.
Farhad Mazhar left the court premises for his home around 5:52pm. Newsmen wanted to talk to him but he showed no interest in doing so.
However, his wife, Farida Akhtar told Prothom Alo, “I’m happy with the fact that I have my husband back.”
Earlier on the day, the police said Farhad Mazhar was blindfolded and picked up in a microbus.
They added that this occurred on Monday morning when he had come down from his house and was on the way to buy some medicine.
After being rescued last night, Farhad Mazhar was taken at nine this morning (Tuesday) first to the Adabar police station in Dhaka. From there, just before 11am, he was taken to the police Detective Branch (DB) office on Minto Road for interrogation.
He was interrogated for over two hours. He was then sent to the lower court to record his deposition under Section 164.
Joint commissioner of police Abdul Baten went on to say that after Farhad Mazhar was picked up, his phone was used to call his wife. Over the phone Farhad Mazhar had said that the people who had picked him up were demanding ransom of Tk 35,00,000.
Farhad Mazhar was found at 11:30pm Monday night at Abhaynagar, from a Hanif Paribahan Dhaka-bound bus coming from Khulna, according to the police. The relatives said that some unknown person or persons had simply left him yesterday early morning in front of the Huq Garden house in the city’s Shyamoli area.
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