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Anwarul Azim Anar.

The Criminal Investigation Department in West Bengal, India has called murdered Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar’s youngest daughter Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin for DNA tests.

A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch will accompany Dorin in her India visit.


Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anar’s private secretary Abdur Rauf confirmed the information and told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·, ‘The Kolkata  CID on Thursday asked the lawmaker’s daughter Dorin to come Kolkata for DNA tests. A DB team will go with her.’

Asked when she would leave Bangladesh, he said that the DB team would apply for the government’s order on Sunday.

‘Dorin would fly right after the DB team gets the GO,’ MP Anar’s PS added.

DB officials involved in the investigation acknowledged that the West Bengal CID called MP Anar’s daughter for DNA tests.

They, however, said that they did not know whether DB officers would accompany her.

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.

The CID West Bengal recovered 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 kilogram of flesh from a septic tank of Sanjeeva Garden in Kolkata.

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 of 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 sent to jail following an eight-day remand in police custody.

On June 14, AL Jhenaidah district unit relief and social welfare secretary Qazi Kamal gave confessional statement to a Dhaka court.

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.