Farhad Mazhar’s statement doesn’t match with cops’ info

The information collected by police during investigation does not match with the statement of writer Farhad Mazhar who was allegedly abducted from Dhaka on July 3, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Chief Asaduzzaman Mia said today.

The DMP chief came up with the comment while replying to reporters’ queries at a programme in the city this afternoon.

“We collected some video footage, CCTV footages, his [Mazhar] mobile call lists and other evidence in this regard. But these don’t match with the statement given by Farhad Mazhar,” the DMP commissioner said.

“We need one or two days more to reach a decision in this regard,” he added.

Columnist and poet Mazhar in a judicial statement said several unidentified men forced him into a microbus and blindfolded him minutes after he came out of his Adabor house in the city to buy medicine early in the morning on July 3, according to court sources.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia talking to reporters at a programme in Dhaka city on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Photo: Star

He gave the statement under Section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) before a magistrate in Dhaka.

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Mazhar also said law enforcement agencies rescued him from a bus in Noapara of Jessore as he was heading for the capital after the abductors released him in Khulna on the same day.