After several failed attempts to trace the body of slain Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar, the West Bengal police have engaged an Indian Navy team from Visakhapatnam to search a canal in Kolkata where pieces of his dismembered body were said to have been thrown.

Although the accused, butcher Jihad Hawaldar, has claimed that a trolley bag and a weapon used in the murder were also thrown along with the MP’s flesh in the canal at Bagjola in the Bhangore area, the searches held by the CID over more than a week have not yielded any results.

The investigation has so far hinged on drops of blood found in a flat in New Town, on the outskirts of Kolkata, where the MP was suspected to have been skinned and dismembered on May 13. However, the police are yet to find the murder weapon and body parts.

What makes their job tougher is that the prime suspect and alleged mastermind in the case is a US citizen.

On May 12, the MP of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League left his friend Gopal Biswas’s home, after which he remained incommunicado. The same day, his daughter filed a police complaint in Dhaka and a kidnapping case was registered there. In Kolkata, Biswas filed a missing complaint at the Baranagar police station.

The investigators have found that Anar, who belonged to Bangladesh’s Khulna district, arrived in Kolkata on May 12. He had allegedly told his family that he was going to Kolkata for a medical check-up.

On May 15, the police acted on a tip-off and reached the flat in New Town, where they found blood stains. Investigators from the two countries then claimed the MP for the Jhenaidah-4 constituency had been murdered.

Blood samples from the flat have been sent for a forensic examination, where they will be matched with the blood of the MP’s daughter, Mumtarin Ferdoush Dorin, who is likely to come to Kolkata on June 5.

Source: The India Express 

BDST: 1125 HRS, JUN 04, 2024
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