A youth was placed on a two-day remand while three others were sent to jail in connection with the missing of three college girls from the capital’s Pallabi area.

One of the arrestees is Rakibullah, 20.

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The Daily Star withholds the names of three others as they may not be adults.

Sajib Khan, sub-inspector of Pallabi Police Station, produced them before a Dhaka court and sought a seven-day remand for each. Of them, the court placed Rakibullah on a two-day remand. The remand hearing of other accused will be held after determining their age, court sources said.

Meanwhile, police are yet to trace the missing college girls, all of them 12th graders and aged around 15.

On Friday, the three teenage friends left their homes without saying anything to their families. One of them took Tk 6 lakh in cash, another took 2.5 tola of gold ornaments and the other took Tk 75,000. They also took SSC certificates, birth certificates and several mobile phones from their houses.

Elder sister of one of the missing teenagers filed a case with Pallabi Police Station, under the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act, against 10 people on Saturday — citing the names of the four. She feared that the girls were trafficked abroad.

According to the case statement, the three missing students were known to the accused and used to hang out together. After the students went missing, the plaintiff visited the accused houses, but did not find them.

The statement added that the trio were “abducted” in a white microbus.

After the incident, mother of one of the girls filed a complaint with the police station on Friday. Following the complaint, police arrested the four and interrogated them in custody.  



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