A four-member team of Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday left Dhaka for Nepal to investigate the murder of the ruling聽 Awami League lawmaker for Jhenaidah-4, Anwarul Azim Anar, who was allegedly murdered in India鈥檚 West Bengal.
The team left for Nepal after the media reported that Siam Hossain, one of the key suspects in the murder of the lawmaker was detained in Nepal.
While departing Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning, DMP DB chief Harun-or-Rashid told reporters that they heard that Siam and other Bangladeshi suspects in the murder were staying in Nepal and using the route of Nepal鈥檚 capital Kathmandu for fleeing to other countries.
鈥榃e have seen that the mastermind behind killing of the lawmaker, Akteruzzaman Shahin, went to a foreign country using Nepal as a route鈥�.We are going to Nepal for the sake of investigation,鈥� Harun said, adding that they are going to establish a connection with the Kathmandu police.
Harun, who is leading the detective team, said that they informed Nepal police through giving letters to Interpol from the Police Headquarters that Siam and other suspects were either in Nepal or in another country.
Asked about the media reports claiming suspect Siam was arrested in Nepal, Harun said, 鈥業 cannot say anything right now. We are going for an investigation.鈥�
Representatives of National Central Bureaus also accompanied the team.
The NCBs are at the heart of Interpol that cooperates on cross-border investigations, operations, and arrests.
Before Nepal, a team of three detectives led by DB chief Harun-or-Rashid went to Kolkata in India on May 26 for further investigation into the murder and returned to Dhaka on Thursday.聽
On the night of May 28, the Kolkata CID recovered some human body parts from the sewerage line of a New Town flat at Sanjeeva Garden, where ruling AL lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar was allegedly killed.
The police reportedly recovered some hair, bone and flesh from the sewerage line of Sanjeeva Garden.
Four people have been arrested so far in Bangladesh and one in India over the murder.
Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar went to India for medical treatment on May 11 and remained missing since May 14.
On May 22, Kolkata detectives confirmed that the Bangladesh lawmaker was murdered.
A Dhaka court on Friday 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 murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Shanto Islam Mollick passed the order on Friday after the police produced them before the court with another eight-day remand prayer, said a court official.
Earlier on May 24, they were placed on eight-day remand in connection with the murder.
Police officials said that Bangladesh-born US citizen Akteruzzaman Shahin, one of the friends of the lawmaker, was the mastermind behind murdering Anwarul.
The officials said that Akteruzzaman Shahin fled Bangladesh after the murder and now is staying in the US.