Journalist Bibhuranjan Sarkar Missing: Editorial on Bangabandhu Was ‘Withdrawn’

Staff Correspondent. Friday, August 22, 2025.

71-year-old journalist Bibhuranjan Sarkar has gone missing. His son Rit Sarkar has filed a general diary (GD) in this regard at the capital’s Ramna police station. The family said that Bibhuranjan left Siddheshwari’s house around 10 am on Thursday to go to the office. But after that, he did not return home. After searching, it was found that he did not go to the office either. The mobile phone he used was also left at home.

In the GD, Rit Sarkar mentioned, “We checked at my father’s office (Banasree) and found out that he did not appear in the office. We searched everywhere possible but could not find him. So I filed a general diary at the police station.”

Ramna Police Station OC Golam Faruk said, “We are investigating. However, he left his phone at home. It might have been easier to find him if he had the phone with him.”

Bibhuranjan’s younger brother Chiranjan Sarkar wrote on Facebook, “Dada left home at 10 am to go to the newspaper office today. But he did not reach the office. He did not even go to familiar surroundings. He did not return home until 1 am. He is nowhere to be found in the hospital, the park. A GD has been filed with the police station that night.”

The family claims that no trace of him was found as of Friday afternoon.

Meanwhile, Bibhuranjan’s workplace has informed that he is on a seven-day leave from August 16. However, earlier, an editorial he wrote on August 14 had to be suddenly ‘withdrawn’. It is learnt that there was a discussion within the newspaper about that editorial written about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awami League.

Following this incident, Bibhuranjan’s sudden disappearance has caused deep concern among his family, colleagues, and journalists.