A 25-year-old man has been missing since he was allegedly picked up a week ago by several men claiming to be officers of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
On September 19, Dilwar Hossain, an office assistant (of a private organisation), was picked up from his home in Bosila Garden City by a group of armed men, his wife Jakia Akhter Mitu told The Daily Star.
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"It was around 7:30pm when a group of men knocked on our door. The landlord was with them. When my father-in-law opened the door, they came in and handcuffed my husband," she said.
Contacted, the landlord Shah Alam Talukdar said, "They came and identified themselves as DB police. One of them showed me a gun and an identity card, which had DB written on it."
Mitu said the men were in plain clothes. "But they all wore boots.When they were taking him away, I tried to follow them, but they asked me to go back inside the house. When they went downstairs, I rushed to the window and saw them taking my husband away in a white microbus with tinted windows."
Dilwar's family stated that they went to Mohammadpur Police Station and to the DB office on Minto Road, but to no avail.
"We went to Mohammadpur Police Station twice -- once on Wednesday and once on Saturday -- and tried to file a case but they would not allow us to do so. We went to the DB office on Saturday too but were told at the reception that we should contactthe local police station," Mitu claimed.
