Amini says son ‘freed’ by ‘kidnappers’ Accuses PM of abduction

Islami Oikya Jote chairman Fazlul Haq Amini on Friday said his son Abul Hasanat was left 'blindfolded' at Bakshi Bazar 11 days after being 'abducted' by 'lawmen in plain clothes'.

Amini claimed at a press conference that his son was kidnapped and also released by lawmen in plain clothes at prime minister Sheikh Hasina's instruction.

Abul Hasanat, who was allegedly kidnapped by

gunmen from Dolaikhal area on April 10, appeared in front of Nabakumar Institute at Bakshi Bazar in the city at around 4:00am Friday.

At the press conference at Lalbagh madrassah, Amini, also chief of Islamic Law Implementation Committee, claimed that Sheikh Hasina had ordered his son's abduction in a bid to thwart the protests spearheaded by his party against the women development policy.

He said that they abductors had threatened to kill his son if he divulged anything about the kidnapping.

Amini, an ally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, said, 'We will not retreat from our stand against the women development policy.'

Abul Hasanat, who was also present at the press conference, claimed that a gang of eight people had kidnapped him on April 10 from Dolaikhal at

Sutrapur in the Old Town where he had gone to have his car repaired at a motor workshop.

'The armed gang took me in a Pajero jeep and blindfolded me. After 30 minutes of journey, I was taken into a building where they kept me blindfolded round the clock,' he said.

He said that the gang had asked him to 'persuade' his father to 'stop' the 'movement.'

'Besides, I was kept in handcuffs all the time in captivity, but they did not torture me physically. They gave me food in time,' he said.

Hasanat said he had called his father-in-law after the 'kidnappers' left him at Bakshi Bazar.

Amini had earlier alleged that his son was picked up by the lawmen.

  But the police denied they had arrested any of Amini's sons.

Islamic Law Implementation Committee enforced a daylong hartal across the country on April 4 in protest at the National Women's Development Policy branding it 'anti-Islamic'.

Source: New Age