Benapole: Police have rescued a ten-year-old madrasah student from Magura’s Vaina crossing bus-stand, whose ankle was found to be tied up in a chain and a big block of wood late on Monday.

The boy is Abuzar, son of Abdul Alim, resident of the district’s Indra village under Bagharpara upazila.

Police and the boy said that he was bound by chains by his madrasah teacher, Jahangir Hossain, so that he could not escape.

Abuzar was admitted at Bagharpara’s Darilakur madrasah three years ago, but was physically assaulted by Jahangir ever since, reported UNB.

This motivated him to flee the madrasah on several occasions, but was convinced by his father every time to return.

Jahangir therefore devised a method of tying him in shackles and wood so that he could not escape four months ago, also forcing him to solitary confinement.

Allegations have been brought up against the boy’s family as they had reportedly given their consent to Jahangir’s tactics.

Abuzar later successfully was able to escape on Monday evening and board a Magura-bound bus, where after getting off at Vayna, local people spotted his questionable chains and called the police.

The Magura Sadar Police officer-in-charge Ajmal Huda, said that a local journalist had brought the shackle-bound boy to their station late Monday, after which they informed his father.

He was later handed over to Bagharpara Police Station, where they are reported to take all necessary legal actions.

The Bagharpara Police Station OC Sairuddin Ahmed said that Abuzar’s family members are currently being questioned; where they have claimed that he had escaped from home and not from the madrasah.

Police later found about their consent to tying Abuzar up in shackles and issued them a warning not to repeat it again.