‘Got Circumstantial Evidence...’: Bangladeshi Detective Probing Murder Of MP Anwarul Azim Anar

A Bangladesh police team, which arrived in India last week, said they found “circumstantial evidence” during the investigation into the murder of their MP Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata.

Azim was reported missing on May 18 by family members, after they received text messages sent from his phone suggesting he had gone on business to India. Security camera footage showed Azim entering a building in Kolkata with two men and a woman, and while his companions were seen leaving, he was not.

The Chief of the Bangladesh Detective Department is currently in India to investigate the murder case of the 56-year-old Bangladesh MP. The Bangladesh police team had said the mastermind of this murder, the beneficiary and those who executed the plans, all are for their country. The police team expressed its desire to interrogate the arrested suspects and visit Baranagar, where Anar resided.

“We inspected the sewage line which is connected with that duplex flat (where he was murdered) with the help of West Bengal CID. We took help from CID West Bengal to break the whole sewage line. We are already interrogating the accused butcher at the CID West Bengal headquarters,” Harun-or-Rashid, the chief of the Bangladesh Detective Department, was quoted as saying by ANI.

Earlier, the Bangladeshi detective said the main conspirator Akhtaruzzaman may have escaped from Kathmandu to the US via Dubai. “We also got digital evidence and we will also record the statement of the accused butcher. After interrogation, we matched the statement with our accused in Bangladesh. We also got circumstantial evidence and we are matching it,” he added.

A member of Bangladesh’s ruling party was found murdered in Kolkata last week, more than a week after he went missing, Bangladeshi Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said. Azim Anar won his third consecutive term in a constituency in the border district of Jhenaidah from the Awami League party.

Khan told reporters that three Bangladeshis were arrested over the lawmaker’s death. Bangladesh police and Kolkata police were conducting a joint probe and could not “disclose all information at the moment for the sake of the investigation,” he had said. Earlier, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her condolences and deep grief over the lawmaker’s death.