A Dhaka court on Sunday placed a ruling Awami League Jhenaidah district leader on seven-day聽remand in connection聽with the AL lawmaker for Jhenaidah-4 Anwarul聽Azim Anar鈥檚 reported聽murder in India鈥檚 West聽Bengal.
The Criminal Investigation Department of West Bengal in India, meanwhile, reportedly recovered bones from the bank of a canal on the day.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the remand order for AL Jhenaidah district unit relief and social welfare affairs secretary Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu following a ten-day remand prayer by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch assistant commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman.
Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station general recording officer and sub-inspector Jalal Uddin confirmed it to 抖阴精品.
On Thursday night, the DMP DB branch detained AL Jhenaidah district leader Kamal from Jhenaidah sadar upazila in connection with the case.
He was later taken to Dhaka for interrogation as local people and police said that Babu had close links with Shimul Bhuiyan, arrested in Bangladesh as one of the key suspects in the case.
They said that he was a relative of United States citizen Akhtaruzzaman Shaheen, the alleged mastermind behind the murder.
CID West Bengal recovered the bones from a spot on the bank of a canal near Polerhat in North 24 Parganas around 15 kilometres away from the New Town apartment where the MP was reportedly murdered and his body was dismembered, according to a Hindustan Times report published online on Sunday.
鈥榃e have recovered some bones. They appear to be human bones. We are sending these to lab for forensic analysis,鈥� AK Chaturvedi, inspector general of police CID, was quoted as saying in the Indian daily.
鈥楾he bones appear to be that of the human rib cage and arms. The skull was yet to be recovered,鈥� 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 lawmaker, according to the Hindustan Times report.
Officials said that it was Hossain who led the cops to the spot from where the bones were recovered, the report added.
On May 31, a Dhaka court placed three suspects, Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, his associate Tanvir Bhuiyan, and Celesty Rahman, on five-day fresh remand in police custody in the case filed over the reported murder of Anwarul Azim.
On June 4, a Dhaka Court recorded the confessional statement of Tanvir Bhuiyan and sent him to jail.
Tanvir Bhuiyan gave the confessional statement a day after Celesty Rahman, one of the three suspects arrested in Bangladesh.
Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar went to India for medical treatment on May 11 and went missing on May 14.
On May 22, Kolkata detectives confirmed that he was murdered.
