Queens Kidnappers 'Beat, Sodomize, And Humiliate' Man: Feds

QUEENS, NY — Kidnappers brutally beat, sexually humiliated and sodomized men in Queens, federal authorities said.

Seven people — all with Bengali backgrounds — have been indicted in connection to two abductions, according to court documents, including an indictment unsealed this week.

One of their victims was brazenly kidnapped off a public street to various places in order to "beat, sodomize, and humiliate him," documents state. Another man was drugged and filmed while standing naked in a residential neighborhood, authorities said.

“The violent physical and sexual assaults these defendants allegedly inflicted upon the victims they kidnapped were disturbing beyond measure," said James Smith, assistant director-in-charge for the FBI's New York field office, in a statement.

The first kidnapping unfolded March 27 in Jamaica, when a man was abducted off the street and assaulted over 13 hours by Syed Rubel Ahmed, 43, Shahed Alom, 29, Abu Chowdhury, 34, Anzu Khan, 28, and Sultana Razia, 38 — all of whom were named in an indictment unsealed this week. Another suspect remains unnamed as they had yet to be arrested, authorities said.

The kidnappers beat the man with a broom, threatened him with scissors, forced him to strip naked and stand outside and ultimately drugged him, according to documents.

The second kidnapping occurred May 11 and involved Chowdhury and Iffat Lubna, 24, documents state.

They abducted another man in Woodside, beat him and sexually assaulted him, authorities said.

"In this May 2023 kidnapping, the victim was different but the cruelty was the same: the victim was beaten, robbed, extorted for ransom, sodomized with a phallic object to the point of bleeding, drugged and deserted in an abandoned home," documents state.

The kidnappers tormented the victim's father by calling his father so he could hear his son screaming for help, before they demanded $20,000, according to documents.

When the man's father couldn't produce the ransom, the kidnappers didn't try to collect it — a circumstance that prosecutors argued showed a sadistic motive rather than monetary gain.

"Rather, the defendants chose to continue torturing the Victim, suggesting that their overruling motivations were to exact pain and humiliation on the Victim," a document states. "The defendants also left the Victim for dead, tying him up, taping his eyes, and abandoning him in an abandoned house with no food and water. The defendants’ callous manner from the beginning of the crime to the very end demonstrates the depravity and gravity of the nature and circumstances of the charged crime."