The missing Islamic preacher Afsanul Haque Adnan Abu Twaha, 31, returned home in Bangladesh’s northern city of Rangpur after Jumma prayers on Friday.
Rangpur Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner (crimes) Abu Maruf Hossain said, ‘We have found him out. We are taking him to police station. We’ll disclose the details later.’
The police officer at about 3:15pm said that they were yet to talk to Twaha to know the details about his stay since he went missing.
The metropolitan police’s assistant commissioner Faruk Ahmed said that he was found near his in-laws’ house in the city’s Kotwali area.
A senior metropolitan police official said that Twaha returned home and, on information, the police took him to the Rangpur Kotwali Police station for interrogation.
Twaha and three of his associates, Amir Uddin Foyes, Abdul Muhit and Firoz, had been missing since June 11.
Abu Tawha and his companions could not be found since their arrival in Gabtali area in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka from Rangpur, his family alleged.
Darussalam police investigators on June 12 said that they got verbal complaint about the incident, collected his last mobile phone call location after a man approached the police station with the missing complaint that their phones were switched off from 2:36am on June 11 after they had reached Gabtoli in Dhaka.
Darussalam police station officer-in-charge Tofael Ahmed had said on June 12 that the last call location of the man was showed in Rangpur at 3:17pm on June 10.
In a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on June 16, Sabiqun Nahar, wife of Twaha, said that hours before they went missing with the car carrying the four on June 10, he informed his wife over the phone that two motorbikes were following their car.
She said that the way they disappeared suggested that it was not a criminal gang that was behind the abduction as he used to give talks on geopolitics, Islam and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police said on Thursday that they were talking to different agencies about the missing of Islamic preacher Afsanul Haque Adnan and three of his associates.
‘The Rangpur police are working on it and we are assisting them,’ said DMP additional commissioner (detective branch) AKM Hafiz Akhter at a press conference on Thursday.
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