Doctor held over missing youths with suspected militant links

Police have arrested a doctor over seven youths with suspected militant links going missing nearly three weeks ago.

Police's Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime unit or CTTC revealed the news of Shakir Bin Wali's arrest on Wednesday after the Criminal Investigation Department denied taking him away from his home in Dhaka's Rampura earlier this week, reports bdnews24.com.

His father AKM Waliullah, an ophthalmologist, said men posing as CID officials detained Shakir on Sunday.

The CTTC, however, claimed they arrested him on Tuesday and a court granted them five days to grill him in custody on Wednesday.

Medical student's family says he was taken by the CID. The CID denies it

Another suspect, Abrarul Haque, was also remanded with Shakir in a case with Rampura Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The families of seven youths filed a general diary at Kotwali Police Station in Cumilla, saying they did not return home after leaving on August 23.

They ran into police in Chandpur the same night, and the law enforcers put them in a hotel, from where they fled, saying their parents arrived to take them home.