3 admit to Parag abduction link


Three of the seven suspects arrested in connection with the abduction of six--year-old Parag Mondol admitted their involvement on Friday.
Of the rest four, three were placed on a 10-day remand on Friday while the seventh was remanded for seven days the day before.
Zahidul Hasan, 18, an HSC student of Dania College in Shonir Akhra, Mohammad Ali Rifat, 19, an aeronautical engineering student at a private institute in Uttara; Kala Chand, 30, now a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver; gave their confessional statements before Judicial Magistrate Shahidul Islam of Dhaka.
The trio said they took part in the operation but they did not know the planning as well as persons behind the abduction, Shakhawat Hossain, officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station, told The Daily Star.