Lalmonirhat: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the abductor and rescued the victim schoolgirl of Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj from Barua village under Sadar police station of Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the arrested main accused abductor is Md Shakib, 20, son of Md Saidul Islam of village Purbo Ambari under Sadar police station of Lalmonirhat district. The accused met the victim, a regular student of class eight, through social media platforms Facebook and Imo and they had been communicating for a long time. When the victim's family became aware of the situation, they restrained the accused several times.
Enraged by the family's intervention, the accused forcibly abducted the schoolgirl from the west side of Thanaghat Bridge under Shahjadpur police station in Sirajganj district against her will and took her to an unknown location at 12:55 pm on November 23, 2025. Subsequently, the victim's mother filed a kidnapping case with Shahjadpur police station in Sirajganj district on November 29, 2025.
Considering the gravity of the incident, RAB initiated intelligence activities along with other law enforcement agencies to rescue the victim and apprehend the accused. Acting on a tip-off, an operational team from RAB-13's Rangpur Sadar Company conducted a raid in Barua village of Lalmonirhat, arrested the main accused, and rescued the victim schoolgirl at 2:30 am on Wednesday.
The elite force later handed over the arrested accused and the rescued victim to Shahjadpur police station of Sirajganj for further legal action.