Bangladeshi court has sent three defendants to eight days in police prison over the murder of an MP in Kolkata
Bangladeshi court has sent three defendants to eight days in police prison over the murder of an MP in Kolkata.
A Bangladeshi court on Friday put three suspects on an eight-day police remand because they may have been involved in the brutal death of governing Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar while he was in India.
Anar, the president of the Awami League’s Kaliganj sub-district unit and a three-time member of parliament from Bangladesh’s Jhenaidah-4 sector, came personally to Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, on May 12 in order to receive medical assistance. He disappeared from Kolkata on May 13.
The MP was allegedly first killed by strangulation, after which his body was chopped and scattered, according to the Kolkata police, who used circumstantial evidence to support their claims.
The MP was allegedly first killed by strangulation, after which his body was chopped and scattered, according to the Kolkata police, who used circumstantial evidence to support their claims. Not a trace of his body or any bodily parts are evident anymore.
In connection with his passing, Bangladesh Police had three people under custody. Police presented Tanvir, Shimul Bhuiyan, and Silisti Rahman, the three suspects, before Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi on Friday and asked for a 10-day remand.
After the hearing, the court put the three on an eight-day police remand.
Bangladeshi police assert that Bhuiyan, the leader of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party, obtained a fake passport and changed his name to Amanullah in order to elude identification by law enforcement and facilitate the lawmaker’s murder in Kolkata.
Two or three months before the murder, the plot was planned, with multiple meetings held at the homes of Aktaruzzaman Shahin, the MP’s close friend and mastermind, in the Gulshan and Bashundhara neighborhoods. Officials stated that American citizen Akhtaruzzaman, who was born in Bangladesh, had traveled to Nepal after the murder.
A West Bengal CID team left for Bangladesh on Thursday in order to question the three accused.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate, Mahbubul Haque, had earlier on May 23 established a deadline of July 4 for the filing of the case’s investigative report.
The case was registered with the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station on May 22 by Anar’s daughter, Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin.
A police officer in Kolkata reports that a Bangladeshi national employed as a butcher in the state’s Bangaon area of the North 24 Parganas district has been placed under arrest by the West Bengal CID on suspicion of being implicated in Anar’s murder.
The individual admitted to the police that he had helped the other accused person chop up the victim’s body and then dispose of the parts in different locations during questioning.
The senior police officer stated that preliminary inquiry also showed that the US citizen and close friend of the MP, Akhtaruzzaman, had donated about ₹ 5 crore to the culprits.
The MP claims that his friend is probably in the US right now and has an apartment in Kolkata.
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