Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Habibur Rahman said on Wednesday that the cause of the murder of Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar was yet to be known.
He said that neither the Bangladesh police nor the Indian police have been able to find out the motive behind the murder.
He said these in response to a question from the journalists at the inaugural ceremony of the 鈥楧atabase and Analysis of Road Crash Software鈥� training held at the DMP headquarters in the capital on Wednesday.
Maximum efforts are under way to bring back Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen, alleged mastermind of Anwarul鈥檚 murder, to find out the motive behind the murder, he said.
The DMP commissioner said that a team of Bangladeshi and Indian police were working together to recover his body.
Referring to the reported recovery of the MP鈥檚 body parts, commissioner Habib said that it would be confirmed only after examinations if the recovered body parts were of murdered Anar.
Earlier, Kolkata-based journalists reported on Tuesday night that the CID of Kolkata police recovered some human body parts from the sewerage line of a New Town flat where ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar allegedly was killed.
Quoting the intelligence, local journalists reported that police recovered some hair, bone and flesh from the sewerage line of Sanjiva Garden and the forensic team received the body parts for examinations.
Meanwhile, the detective branch of Jashore police arrested the main associate of Shimul Bhuiyan, a leader of the defunct extremist group Purba Bangla Communist Party, in connection with the murder.
The arrested, Saiful Alam, 48, is a resident of village Dattagati of Payra Union under Abhaynagar upazila in Jashore, reported United News of Bangladesh.
He was arrested during a raid at Adarsha Matsya Hatchery in the Raypara Bablatala area of Jashore city on Tuesday night, said sub-inspector Mofizul Islam of Jashore DB.
鈥楽aiful is an accused listed in charge sheets for the murders of Uday Shankar, Rakib, and Subrata in Jashore, and is also a fugitive in one of these cases,鈥� he said.
Four people have been arrested so far in Bangladesh and two in India in the Anwarul murder incident.
On May 12, Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul visited his friend Gopal Biswas鈥� house in Kolkata and he mysteriously disappeared on the next day.
On May 22, Kolkata detectives confirmed that Bangladeshi lawmaker was murdered.
