Son of Jamaat Leader Golam Faruk Detained With a Young Woman From a Mess in Khulna's Khalishpur

Police have detained a young man along with a young woman from a mess in the Mujgunni residential area of Khalishpur in Khulna city and taken them to the police station. The detained man, Mumtazir Billah (26), is the son of Golam Faruk, chairman of Islamkati Union Parishad in Tala upazila of Satkhira and a Jamaat leader. The incident took place at around 3:30pm on Sunday.

According to local sources, several young men rent rooms on the fourth floor of building No. 325 on Road No. 21 in the Mujgunni residential area. On Sunday afternoon, Mumtazir Billah went into a room of the mess with the young woman.

When the other residents of the mess became suspicious, they confined the two. As word spread in the area, local residents and journalists went to the spot.

On receiving the news, a team from Khalishpur police station went to the scene. In the presence of journalists and locals, police took Mumtazir Billah and the young woman from a room of the mess to the police station.

Khalishpur police station officer-in-charge Md Shahjahan said that, acting on information from locals, a young man and a young woman were rescued from a mess in the Mujgunni residential area and brought to the station. They are being questioned, and the process of taking legal action is under way.