Lawyer missing for 36 days

A lawyer has been missing for 36 days from 10 February this year. The man is Sohel Rana, 35, a lawyer and a resident of Shekhertek area of Adabor police station in the city.

Relatives of the disappeared man said unidentified youth picked up Sohel in a microbus on 10 February. A GD was filed in this connection.

Adabor police sub-inspector Maruf Hasan Rasel, investigation officer of the GD, said mobile phone call lists of the lawyer has been checked. "But we cannot trace out his whereabouts as his cell phone was switched off. There is even no evidence that he has been kidnapped," he added.
Family sources said Sohel Rana went out of his house for work on the day. At about 8:30pm, he informed his wife over phone that he was at Mahakhali and he will go to meet a person at Uttara and then return home.
When he did not reach home till 12:00am, his wife Afroza Sultana made a phone call but the cell phone was switched off.
Later on the next day, Sohel's elder brother Mostafa Kamal told Afroza, quoting Sohel’s friend Ringku who was with him during the incident, 10-12 youth picked up Sohel in a microbus.
Sohel’s family members then went to police stations, RAB offices, and Anjuman Mofidul Islam, a free burial organisaers, but did not find any trace of him.
Being failed to find Sohel, the family filed a general diary after six days of his disappearance.
Afroza Sultana, quoting Sohel's elder brother, told Prothom Alo that Sohel and his friend Rinku went to Uttara sector-5 on Rinku’s motorbike. When they were returning home, 10-12 people, aged around 20-25, halted them and picked up both of them in an ash-colour microbus handcuffing hands and blindfolding their eyes.
The youths mocked Sohel, saying, “Have you becaome a big leader?”
At one stage, they unfolded Rinku’s eyes and hands and ordered him to run away from the microbus. Rinku ran up to near Purbachal area and returned home in other transport. He informed Sohel's brother that he lost connection with Sohel since then.  
Afroza said with tearful eyes Sohel is a BNP supporter but he is not any leader or activist of the party. There is no case or GD against him.
Afroza demanded government’s intervention in this regard. Afroza said she is passing days with two children amid terrible fear and anxiety.