Cumilla, March 5 -- A teacher of Comilla University was abducted by a group posing as Uber riders and robbed of Tk 97,500 while travelling from Cumilla to Dhaka.

The victim, Abdur Razzak Sohel, a lecturer at the university's Mass Communication and Journalism Department, filed a case with Cumilla Sadar South Police Station on Thursday against four unidentified people.

The incident occurred in the Kotbari Bishwaroad area of Cumilla.

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The criminals later took him to Daudkandi where they looted cash and money from his mobile banking accounts before releasing him.

According to the victim, he went to the Kotbari area on Wednesday afternoon in a colleague's private car for urgent work.

He was waitin...