News No.44/2016:
Wednesday, June 01, 2016
A 13-YEAR-OLD girl named
Hlachai Marma reportedly disappeared on May 24 in Lama in the southern district
of Bandarban when she went out of her house for a sleepover at her
grandmother’s home.
Her father Aungcha Pru
Marma said he believed his daughter, a class eight student of Haragaza Junior
High School, had been kidnapped, and filed a case with Lama police station
against Mizan (21), Monshur Alam (22), Jashim (19), Monzur (18), Mizan (20) and
Hashon (25) in this connection. (Case No. 11, dated May 27, 2016)
Earlier he had
complained to the local UP chairman and sought his intervention to rescue his
daughter.
Aungsha, a resident of
Saperghata village under Phanshiakhali Union, said the victim’s grandmother’s
house is in the same village and that his daughter had gone out as usual at 7
pm to sleep overnight at her grandma’s house.
“But we could not know
until next morning that she was not at her grandma’s house” he said.
“When she did not return
in the morning, we got alarmed and began searching for her.” he went on to say.
The father further told
reporters that when his elder daughter had gone to fetch water from a nearby
stream on May 30 at 2 pm, some of the accused threatened her saying, ‘If we are
harassed we will pick you up like we picked up your sister.’
Meanwhile, the
investigative officer of Lama police station, Harun-ar-Rashid, said that
operation was underway to rescue the girl.
“I am hopeful, we’ll
find her out very soon.” he said. But so far, none of the accused has been
arrested.
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