The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police has arrested one suspect in connection with the mysterious death of Bangladeshi Member of Parliament Anwarul Azim Anar, who was last seen at a rented accommodation in New Town near Kolkata on Wednesday.
According to sources privy to the development, the arrested suspect was hired by the Awami League MP’s friend Akhtaruzzaman, a US citizen, in whose rented accommodation he was murdered.
The accused is identified as Jihad Hawladar (24), a Bangladeshi national who is a butcher by profession.
“Hawaldar, a resident of Khulna district in Bangladesh, was brought to Kolkata two months before by the MP’s friend Akhtaruzzaman, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin, who is the mastermind of this planned gruesome murder,” sources said.
Details of Gruesome Murder
During questioning, the accused told police that on Akhtaruzzaman’s orders, he and four other Bangladeshi nationals smothered and killed Anwarul Azim Anar in the flat.
“Thereafter they deskinned his entire body in the flat, removed all the flesh and minced the flesh to destroy the identity. Then, they packed everything in a polybag, cut the bones into small pieces and packed them as well. The accused then used various modes of transportation to dispose of those packets at different locations within the Kolkata area,” sources added.
The arrested accused will be produced at the Barasat court today, where police will seek his remand to verify his statement and recover the missing body parts.
What We Know So Far
The initial probe into the “murder” of Anwarul Azim Anar revealed that one of his close friends, a US citizen, had paid around Rs 5 crore to kill him. The Awami League MP’s friend owns a flat in Kolkata, and is probably in the US at present, a senior police officer said.
Police also said that the flat in Kolkata’s New Town area, where the Bangladesh MP was last seen entering, was rented out to his friend by its owner, an excise department employee.
“It was a well-planned murder. A huge amount of money, around Rs 5 crore was paid by an old friend of the MP to kill him. Further investigation is underway,” the officer said on Thursday.
Anar, who went missing in Kolkata on May 13, was found murdered and three people have been arrested, Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Wednesday.
The West Bengal Police had said the investigation of the case has been taken up by the state CID.
Anar’s body was yet to be recovered.
However, the state CID has found blood stains inside the apartment of a luxury condominium in New Town on Kolkata’s outskirts, where the MP’s whereabouts were last traced on May 13. They also recovered several plastic bags, which they believe were used to dump the body parts.
Circumstantial evidence indicates that the MP was first strangulated and then his dead body was mutilated in several parts, police claimed.
“The body parts were probably put inside plastic bags and scattered at different locations. We also suspect that some parts were kept in a refrigerator and we have collected samples,” the officer said.
The search for the missing MP, who reportedly arrived in Kolkata on May 12 to undergo medical treatment, began six days later after Gopal Biswas, a resident of Baranagar in north Kolkata and an acquaintance of the Bangladeshi politician, filed a complaint with the local police on May 18.
Anar had stayed at Biswas’s house upon arrival.
In his complaint, Biswas stated that Anar left his Baranagar residence for a doctor’s appointment in the afternoon of May 13, while stating that he would be back home for dinner.
Biswas claimed that the Bangladesh MP went incommunicado on May 17, which prompted him to file a missing complaint a day later.
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