A Dhaka court on Sunday placed Jhenaidah district Awami League leader Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu on seven-day remand in a case lodged over murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place him 10-day remand.
Babu was arrested from Jhenaidah recently by detective branch (DB) and was brought to capital on June 6.
Two separate courts earlier placed three other accused Tanvir Bhuiyan, Shimul Bhuiyan and Silisti Rahman on remand twice.
A separate Dhaka court on May 23 set July 4 for submitting probe report in the case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque passed the order, accepting first information report (FIR) in the case.
Victim’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed the case on May 22 with capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Anwarul, a three-time MP and also president of Kaliganj upazila unit Awami League, went to India on May 12 on a personal visit to receive treatment. He went missing on May 13 after going out of the flat he was residing in Kolkata’s Borah Nagar area.
According to the Kolkata police sources, Anwarul was taken to a flat in New Town in Kolkata, where he believed to be strangled to death and his body was cut into pieces.
Meanwhile, West Bengal police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), who are probing the murder of Bangladesh MP Md Anwarul Azim Anar, have recovered bones from the bank of a canal in North 24 Parganas on Sunday morning, a senior officer said.
“We have recovered some bones, which prima facie appear to be human bones. We are sending them for forensic analysis,” said CID Inspector General of Police (IG) AK Chaturvedi.
“The bones appear to be that of the human rib cage and arms. The skull was yet to be recovered”, he added.
On Friday evening, the CID arrested Siam Hossain, who allegedly played a key role in disposing of the body parts of the slain MP. Officials said that it was Siam who led the cops to the spot from where the bones were recovered.
“If the forensic report confirms that they belong to humans, we will go for DNA analysis to ascertain that they belong to the murdered MP. For that, permission from the court is required. It is a long process,” said an officer.
CID officials said that the spot from where the bones were recovered on the bank of a canal near Polerhat in North 24 Parganas is around 15 km away from the New Town apartment where the MP was murdered and his body was dismembered.
“We have been searching this area for over two weeks based on the information provided by another accused Jihad Hawaldar, who was arrested on May 23. Hossain gave the specific location during interrogation,” said another officer.
Investigation so far has revealed that Hossain and Hawaldar disposed of the body parts and murder weapons.
After Azim was allegedly murdered in the New Town apartment, it was Hawaldar, a professional butcher brought in from Mumbai, who deskinned the body, segregated the flesh from the bones, and chopped the body parts.
While the flesh was flushed in a commode the bones and murder weapons were reportedly disposed of by Hossain and Hawaldar in a canal.
Some flesh was recovered from a septic tank in the New Town apartment where the MP was murdered. They have been sent for forensic analysis to ascertain whether they belong to any humans.
In all, five persons have been arrested to date by both the CID and Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
While three persons were arrested by Dhaka police, CID arrested Siam Hossain and Jihad Hawaldar.
The mastermind of the murder, Aktaruzzaman Shahin, who was a long-term business partner of the murdered MP is still absconding. He is believed to have fled to the US.
