Abducted minor found dead

Police recovered the body of a minor boy from a lemon grove in Jalsuka village of Saturia upazila in Manikganj on Sunday morning, three days after his abduction, reports UNB.

Deceased Jubayer Hossain, 7, was a son of a certain Shamsul Haque, and a first grader at Jalsuka Government Primary School.

Aminul Islam, officer-in-charge of Saturia police station, said that Jubayer went missing from his house on Thursday afternoon.

Later, the abductors called Jubayer’s family over phone on Friday and demanded Tk 300,000 as ransom.

Informing the matter to local police, Jubayer's mother went to Savar to handover the ransom.

However, as the abductors did not contact her, she came back after waiting there for long.

Later, locals spotted the body in the morning and informed the police.

A joint team of police and Rapid Action Battalion recovered the body and sent it to Manikganj Sadar Hospital for an autopsy.

Meanwhile, police arrested a worker, Mohidur Islam, of the orchard for interrogation.