Dhaka: Poet and columnist Farhad Mazhar who had gone ‘missing and then rescued’ was taken to the office of Detective Branch (DB) of Police at city’s Minto Road on Tuesday morning.

Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DMP (media), said Mazhar was taken to the DB office around 10:45am for interrogation.

After bringing him back to the capital from Khulna, police initially took him to Adabar Police Station around 9:00am.

Meanwhile, Didar Ahmmed, deputy inspector general (DIG) of Khulna Range, told journalists that Farhad Mazhar was brought to Fultola Police Station around 12am after his ‘rescue’ from a bus of ‘Hanif Paribahan’ at Nayapara in Abhaynagar upazila on Monday night.

The DIG said Mazhar was not kidnapped as he had gone out of his home ‘on his own for a visit’.

Police traced Mazhar at Nayapara in Abhaynagar upazila on Monday night, over 18 hours after he was reportedly kidnapped from the capital.

Police found him at the ‘Hanif Paribahan’ bus around 11:30pm while he was returning to Dhaka from Khulna, said officerin-charge of Abhaynagar Police Station Anisur Rahman.

Earlier, Farhad Mazhar was said to have been kidnapped by unknown miscreants from Adabar in the capital in the early hours on Monday.