Missing trader not traced, brother gets ransom call

TURA: A local cloth merchant, who disappeared mysteriously from his stall last Saturday, is yet to be traced.
Ismail Sk, who sells clothes at the weekly Najing Bazaar market in the heart of Tura every Saturday, left his stall in the morning and did not return.
The same morning, Ismail called his brother in Goalpara from his cell phone and told him that he was abducted.
Ismail told his brother that two persons came to his stall to purchase bed sheets and told him to collect the money from their home. So he left his stall to get the money.
According to the victim’s brother, a call was made to him from the same phone on Saturday morning demanding Rs 5 lakh.