'Missing' DU teacher appears in Khagrachhari

BANGLADESH NEWS

A Dhaka University teacher appeared in a Khagrachhari police station on Wednesday two days after he went missing.

Dighinala police said Dr Nuruddin Alo, a lecturer of political science, went to the police station with stab injuries on his body around 1:30pm and fell unconscious immediately.

Police whisked him off to Khagrachhari Adhunik Sadar Hospital, reports our Khagrachhari correspondent, quoting Sahadat Hossaion, officer in-charge of Dighinala police station.

Alo remained missing since Monday night.

Several of his students said that on Monday night they had an SMS from Alo that read, “They have kidnapped me. Please do something for me."

But despite repeated tries, the students could not reach him over his mobile phone.

Enamul Haque Emu, a fourth-year student of political science, who also received an SMS from Alo, told The Daily Star that he filed a general diary with Shahbagh Police Station in this connection Tuesday evening.

Sources said Alo lived in Tongi and ran an English medium school there.

Tongi police said he had been involved in a dispute with a woman named Nurun Nahar.

Nahar, a physician by profession, hails from Chittagong. At a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity auditorium on March 25, she claimed that Alo married her in 2008 and he was used torture her for dowry.

But the following day, Alo dismissed the allegations as absurd. At a press conference at DU Journalists Association office, he said, "I am still a bachelor. And there's no question of torturing anyone for dowry."

Contacted, DU Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique said the incident was mysterious. "We have urged the law enforcement agencies to locate the missing teacher."