The West Bengal CID has recovered body parts from a septic tank at Sanjeeva Garden in Kolkata, where Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar was murdered weeks ago.
The CID and Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police suspect the body parts are those of MP Azim, and this will be confirmed following a forensic test.
A three-member team from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch (DB) is currently in Kolkata to investigate the case.
Detective Branch (DB) of Police Chief Harun-or-Rashid said on Tuesday that they have obtained circumstantial evidence from the flat, reports NDTV.
"We inspected the sewage line connected to that duplex flat, the place of occurrence of the murder, with the help of West Bengal CID. We sought assistance from CID West Bengal to break open the entire sewage line. We are already interrogating the accused butcher at the CID West Bengal headquarters," Harun-or-Rashid told the media.
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.
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.
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.
