Kidnapped girl rescued, five held in city

A team of Uttara West Police Station has arrested five members of a kidnapping gang from a house in the capital's Uttara and rescued a college girl from their den, reports BSS.

The five arrestees are Md Masum Pervej (38), Md Solaiman Hossain (38), Shafikul Islam Sourov (27), Mst Maya (25), and Mst Ruli Khanom (19), a Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) release said on Friday.

"The victim went out from her home in Rupnagar Residential Area for college on May 26, but did not return. At around 2.35 am on May 28, an unidentified person called her mother on mobile phone and demanded Tk 0.5 million in ransom for her daughter. The mother informed the matter to police immediately. Police raided the Uttara house and detained the five kidnappers and rescued the victim from there."