MP Anar murder: Three accused put on 8-day remand

A Dhaka court on Friday granted an 8-day remand to the three suspects arrested over the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP Anwarul Azim Anar.

Those remanded are Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan, Shilasti Rahman and Faysal Ali Saji alias Tanveer Bhuiyan.

The arrestees were produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka on Friday around 2:15 pm. The investigation officer of the case and DB's senior assistant commissioner Mahfuzur Rahman pleaded to the court to place them on a 10-day remand for proper investigation in the case.

After the hearing, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Dilruba Afroz Tithi granted the remand period.

bdnews24.com adds: Earlier on Thursday, Additional Commissioner Harunor Rashid, the chief of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch, had shown the three arrested in a case started by Anar’s daughter Mumtarin Ferdoush Dorin with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in Dhaka.

However, Dorin has not named anyone in the case, which included allegations of abduction with intent to murder the parliamentarian.

Meanwhile on Thursday, a team of three detectives from India arrived in Bangladesh and spoke to the suspects as part of their investigation into the murder of Jhenaidah-4 MP in Kolkata.

Anar had entered India by the Darshana-Gede border on May 11. He had been staying with a friend named Gopal Biswas. Biswas filed a general diary at the police station on May 18 after Anar went missing.

Later, the news of Anar’s killing was published by Kolkata media outlets on Wednesday. The reports said his body was found in a multi-storey apartment block in the city’s New Town area.

But Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said that the MP’s body had yet to be found, even though his murder had been confirmed.

The DB police said it was difficult to recover the parliamentarian’s body as it was dismembered in small pieces and dumped.