‘Anomaly in Mazhar’s story’, DB calls him in

Writer and columnist Farhad Mazhar was called in to Detective Branch office and quizzed for what police officials said anomaly in his confession given before court.

Abdul Baten, joint commissioner of Detective Branch, said, “Mazhar’s confession before court and what he described to police after being found does not match”.

“We will interrogate and verify his testimonial,” Baten said at a press briefing in DB office. “What truly happened that day, what we saw his activities were, and the evidence found do not match.”

The writer was called in to Detective Branch office around 11:00am. He stayed inside until 1:00pm before leaving the office without speaking to reporters.

Baten had said Mazhar would be quizzed to scrutinise the anomalies.

Mazhar made the headlines after going missing from Dhaka early morning on June 3, and later turning up safe over 300 kilometres away in Jessore some 18 hours later.

His wife had filed an abduction case in this regard with Adabar Police Station on that day.

While many accounts have surfaced over the matter, including that of an extramarital affair, Farhad Mazhar recently told a leading foreign media that “he will not be silenced”.

Abdul Baten, however, ruled out any link to abduction. “Mazhar was not abducted and there is no abductor in this incident,” he said in today’s press briefing.

“Since Mazhar’s wife filed the case based on his phone call we are checking if court action can be taken in this regard,” Baten added.