Three movement coordinators taken into DB custody from hospital

On July 26 last year, three coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and Abu Baker Majumdar were taken into Detective Branch (DB) custody of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) from a city hospital, reports BSS.

Earlier that afternoon, Nahid's family alleged that a group of people in plainclothes identifying themselves as members of a law enforcement agency picked up Nahid from the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital at around 3:30 pm. Shortly after, Asif and Baker were also picked up from the hospital.

At around 11:30 pm that night, the DB police acknowledged that they picked up the three coordinators of the quota reform movement for security reasons.

The police also informed that they would interrogate Nahid, Asif and Abu Baker whether they had any information related to the violence during the movement.

These three had previously been abducted. On July 19 night, after the nationwide "complete shutdown", announced by the quota reform movement, Nahid was picked up from Nandipara in Khilgaon. He was later found abandoned in Purbachal early hours of July 21 and had since been receiving treatment at Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital.

Asif and Baker were also abducted on July 19. After five days, on July 24, Asif was dropped off in the Hatirjheel area and Baker in Dhanmondi. They too had been under medical care at the same hospital since then.

Earlier, Nahid was picked up in the early hours of July 20 allegedly by law enforcers and allegedly tortured physically while he was found injured in the city's Purbachal area in the early hours of July 21. Both Asif and Abu Bakar were also picked up on July 19 while they were blindfolded and left in Hatirjheel and Dhanmondi areas on July 24.

They were undergoing treatment at the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital since they were released from the detention.

However, Asif, now an adviser of the current interim government, in his book 'Matribhumi Othoba Mrityu' claimed that he and Nahid were kept confined at 'Aynaghar (glass house)'.