A Jhenaidah district ruling Awami League leader Qazi Kamal Babu, arrested in a case filed over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 constituency parliament member Anwarul Azim Anar, gave a confessional statement before a Dhaka court on Friday.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch assistant commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman requested the court to record Babu’s statement in the abduction case of MP Anar, who was killed in Kolkata, India.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Jasim’s court recorded his statement and ordered to send him to jail, said Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police sub-inspector Jalal Uddin.
On June 6, the DMP DB detained Babu, relief and social welfare secretary for Jhenaidah district AL unit, from Adarshapara in Jhenaidah town. On June 9, the court put him on a seven-day remand in police custody as he was shown arrested in the abduction case.
Earlier, Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, his associate Tanvir Bhuiyan, and Celesty Rahman gave confessional statements in the court. They are currently in jail.
Lawmaker Anwarul’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin filed a case on May 22 with the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police, alleging that her father was abducted with the intent to murder.
Earlier on June 11, detectives detained Jhenaidah AL district unit general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu from the capital’s Dhanmondi area in connection with the case. He was put on an eight-day remand on Thursday after he was shown arrested in the case.
Ruling party general secretary Obaidul Quader in a press briefing on Friday said that Mintu was arrested and remanded because Awami League had courage.
He said that no such example was set during the rules of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party or Ershad.
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.
Siam Hossain, who was brought back to India from Nepal, is now in the custody of the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department.
The 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 Anar was reportedly murdered and his body was dismembered, according to Indian media reports.
On May 28, the Kolkata CID recovered four kilograms of flesh from a septic tank of Sanjeeva Gardens in Kolkata suspected to be of Anwar’s.
