Police have spent the last two weeks conducting an active search for a Bedford Park woman they say has been missing since December. Investigators have intensified the search after the woman’s husband and 9-year-old daughter flew to his native Bangladesh a week after the woman was reported missing.

Across the Bronx, members of the Bedford Park community are now demanding the husband, Mohammad Chowdury, show himself to answer questions about the whereabouts of his wife, Mahfuza Rahman, last seen on Dec. 8 at around 4:35 p.m.

Mohammed N. Mujumder, a lawyer immersed in the Bronx’s Bangladeshi community in Soundview, spoke at a rally in front of Rahman and Chowdury’s now abandoned home on East 198th Street in Bedford Park, and urged neighbors to go “door to door” to find Rahman. “As a human being we have a social responsibility. If something happens to somebody, we should all speak up,” he said.

A member of Bronx Community Board 9, Mujumder was flanked by other residents of the Bangladeshi community, and Adaline Walker-Santiago, chair of Community Board 7. “We want everyone to take the posters and post it,” said Walker-Santiago, holding up a missing person poster featuring a smiling Rahman. “She’s a very attractive, only 30-year-old woman with a young daughter. And we do not know to this day what happened.”

Police spent more than a week zeroing in on the couple’s abandoned one-family home. On March 6, a cadre of investigators, officers and a cadaver dog spent the day combing through the home off Jerome Avenue. It had been empty except for stacks of mail left unattended for months. Inside, police found the second floor bedroom freshly painted and major flooding in the basement. In front of the home was a mound of dirt neighbors said was dug up by police.

Rahman, a nurse at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, was reported missing by the hospital’s security team Dec. 8 after Rahman did not report in for work. They had gone to the home that week and were told by Chowdury that his wife abruptly left to her native Bangladesh after learning her parents were in an accident. He told hospital police Rahman would be back in March. When she was expected for work, she didn’t show. That’s when the hospital notified the 52nd Precinct, where officers rushed to the home, broke the door down and found nothing.

“The last time I seen the husband was Dec. 15, and he told me, ‘watch my house because I got to go to my country,’” said John Garcia, a next-door neighbor who told the Norwood News he barely spoke to the family.

But Chowdury’s story of an “accident” was a ruse, according to police, who were later told by Rahman’s parents that he and his daughter took a one-stop flight to Bangladesh to look for her. He has since not responded to calls from the police. He is not considered a suspect at this point, though he is wanted for questioning.

A report by the New York Daily News said Rahman had booked a flight in December and would return Feb. 2, which was later changed to May 2, though authorities have no proof she left the country.

Bangladesh, part of the subcontinent of India, has extradition laws, giving outside authorities the chance to haul fugitives back to the U.S. Though Chowdury fled to Bangladesh, it’s unclear what part of the country he settled in.

“We simply need a destination to go and find him,” said Mujumder.

Police spent the weekend of March 5 excavating the front side of the home, with a police dog brought in for help. Nothing turned up. The police have since left the house, though they sealed the front door, conforming to standard protocol.

Neighbors along the block knew little about the couple, who would be seen shopping at the local C-Town Supermarket on the same block. There was nothing amiss, according to neighbors, who all said the family seemed unassuming and usually kept to themselves.

At the rally, Walker-Santiago called on neighbors to be compelled to call even if there’s a slight possibility it could help the police. “If you are a resident, her friend, a staff member, a neighbor in this community who saw her, heard from her or may know something, would you please pick up the phone and call the precinct?” asked Walker-Santiago.