A Dhaka court has granted the police an 8-day remand for three suspects arrested in connection with the brutal killing of Anwarul Azim Anar, the Member of Parliament (MP) from the Jhenaidah-4 (Kaliganj) Constituency, in Kolkata.
Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court passed the order on Friday (24 May) afternoon.
The arrestees include main hitman Shimul Bhuiyan alias Amanullah, Mostafiz and Shilasti Rahman.
MP Anar, who went missing in Kolkata on 13 May, was murdered in Kolkata and three people have been arrested in this regard in Bangladesh.
West Bengal CID today said they have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder.
One of the arrested, Jihad Hawladar, 24, is a professional butcher and was arrested from Mumbai.
Jihad Hawladar, of Barakpur union in Digholia upazila of Khulna, is an illegal immigrant living in Mumbai since long and has been working as a butcher there.
West Bengal CID has found blood stains inside the apartment of the luxury condominium in New Town on Kolkata’s outskirts, where the MP’s whereabouts were last traced on 13 May.
They also recovered several plastic bags, which they believe were used to dump the body parts.
According to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police, MP Anar’s body was minced to hide all traces of the murder.
During questioning, the people arrested in connection with the murder told police it was carried out on the orders of Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen, a Bangladeshi-US citizen who has been a childhood friend and business partner of the MP.
On Akhtaruzzaman’s orders, MP Anar was lured into the New Town flat, and then smothered with a pillow to kill him.
Following the murder, the body was chopped and then minced to get rid of all evidence.
The sensational murder of Anwarul Azim Anar has been unfurling to be interconnected tales of betrayal, greed and gruesome brutality.
“Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen, a citizen of the United States (US) of Bangladeshi origin, assigned the task of killing MP Azim to killers hired for Tk5 crore,” said an official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch (DB).
The brutal killing of MP Anwarul Azim is suspected to be due to a dispute over the sharing of gold smuggling proceeds.
According to police, Aktaruzzaman Shaheen himself is a gold smuggler and MP Anwarul Azim Anar was allegedly involved with it.
Shaheen and Azim have a joint business in Kolkata.
