The Criminal Investigation Department of Kolkata police has revealed more information about the killing of Bangladeshi lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, who was believed to have been killed in a New Town apartment as he went to Kolkata on May 12, by interrogating a butcher named Jihad Howladar.
Citing sources, Kolkata-based daily Anandabazar reported on Friday that Jihad Howladar, one of the suspects in the murder of Anwarul who went missing on May 14, is a resident of Khulna in Bangladesh. He came to India illegally.
Anandabazar reported that Jihad had confessed to the murder.
According to the report, he admitted that four Bangladeshis helped him in committing the crime and added that Anwarul was strangled to death.
鈥楾hen the bones and flesh of the deceased MP were cut into pieces and put into bags, and thrown outside the apartment,鈥� the media report said.
CID also arrested another man named Zuber in this connection.
He was arrested after receiving information that an accused had met him a day before the murder.
The police are trying to recover the lawmaker鈥檚 body or body parts by interrogating Jihad and Zuber.
Investigators also got some information from CCTV footage.
The accused were seen leaving the New Town apartment with a trolley bag.
Three of them were arrested in Dhaka.
It is believed that the body parts were taken using that trolley bag, the Indian media reports.