3 Leaders of the Student Rights Council are still missing, 2 arrested by DB and in pretrial detention



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Branch Vice President of the Bangladesh Student Rights Council. Nazmul Huda went yesterday to give a live at Modern Herbal in the Maghbazar of the capital. It is alleged that he was picked up from there around 2 in the afternoon.

At two thirty in the afternoon in front of the press club, joint convenor of the central organizer of the organization. To Sohrab Hossain. Another joint convenor of the Central Committee. Saiful Islam was reportedly picked up from a disaster in Chankharpul at night.

Although the three were taken away by some people in civilian clothes, the leader of the Council for Student Rights Nurul Haque Nur claimed that the Detective Section (DB) had taken them away.

He told The Daily Star on Monday afternoon: “Yesterday, people in civilian clothes went to the Saiful dining room with Nazmul. The police were also with him at the time. The Saiful dining room members briefed us on the matter. Then they looked for the rest.

Since then, we have been unable to find any trace of Abdullah Hill, an activist for the organization. Asif Mahmud, the organizing secretary of the DU branch, has been picked up in Tejgaon, ”Nur said.

Noor said they found no trace of these five people until this afternoon. So after the incident we searched the Shahbagh and Lalbagh police stations and also went to the DB office. As always, this time they have completely denied it.

Relatives of the missing are very worried, Nur said, “Everyone is terrified. Yesterday their relatives came to my house, they talked to me. But I couldn’t give them any comfort.

‘I used to see a lot of strangers in my house. Seeing more and more now. I am afraid that I will get up, that I will disappear, ‘Nur said.

The Student Rights Council has protested demanding the immediate release of the leaders identified as DB police officers. They also demanded that three more people be found quickly.

The demands were made at a rally outside the National Museum in Shahbagh in the capital at noon. Later, they marched to Gulistan through Matsya Bhavan, Press Club and Paltan.

Muhammad Rashed Khan, joint coordinator of the Student Rights Council, said: With this, the government wants to intimidate the protesters. Wherever there is an incident of misconduct, whoever is involved, we will continue the movement against them.

Nazmul Huda’s missing aunt said: ‘Where are our children? We cannot sleep or eat in his thoughts. If someone has committed a crime, he will be tried according to the law, why does he take off his civilian clothes instead? ‘

He demanded to find Nazmul Huda as the son of a freedom fighter.

Relatives of the disappeared contacted the DB office, but did not acknowledge their arrest or detention.

However, Saiful and Nazmul were arrested last night by DB police in a rape case brought by a DU student, DB Lalbagh (DC) Deputy Division Commissioner Rajib Al Masood confirmed to The Daily Star.

This afternoon, the investigator of the case took the two to court and requested a seven-day preventive detention. Subsequently, the court granted them a two-day preventive detention.

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