Thirteen-year-old madrasa student Mohammad Arafat remains missing two weeks after he left his home in Chauddagram, Cumilla. Arafat, the son of Ali Haidar from Chandishkara village in Chauddagram municipality, is a fourth-grade student at Mahini Madrasa. His parents, Ali Haidar and Sultana Akter Simu, and other relatives are living in anxiety as they await his return.

According to the family, Arafat returned home from madrasa on the morning of July 23, changed his clothes and left saying he was going to play. Instead, he went to his maternal grandfather's home in Basantapur village. After learning there that his grandmother was in Chauddagram for treatment, he travelled to Feni and met a former teacher before setting out for home.

Family members said they did not previously know that he had gone to his maternal grandfather's home or to Feni. They began searching in different places after he failed to return by the night of July 23. A general diary has been filed with Chauddagram Model Police Station, and Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Arif Hossain said police are making their utmost effort to recover him.